Ben Shiffman’s Capstone Blog

Before the fall, when I thought of the term “capstone project”, I imagined a comprehensive final achievement to cap off my undergraduate college career. I thought of intensive sprints and long hours at my laptop programming, and trying to keep up with teammates that would code circles around me. The experience I’ve had thus far […]

I am really obsessed with Flutter. I don’t think I’ve used such a cohesive and comprehensive development tool in my eight years of coding. Even right out of the box, everything seems to fit together like butter. When I start up VSCode to work on my next task, launch my iOS or Android simulator, and […]

I thought these articles were particularly useful. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/clean-coding-for-beginners/ https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/smells The first, about clean coding, mentions encapsulating conditionals as functions, something that I sometimes do but not specifically as an effort toward clean code. I remember in my days of CS16X, especially when writing the Wumpus game, that I frequently had conditional several lines long. When […]

The past couple weeks have been a blur. I’ve been bogged down with end-of-term presentations and essays at the international school in Spain along with going through several iterations of testing and rebuilding a new feature. Myself and another teammate, Kelson, have been working on redesigning the navigation bar of our application. We ended up […]

The past few weeks have been great for getting closer with my team and our supervisor. With all the requirements documents due, we’ve had to establish effective communication methods. Since Ops Normal is a legacy application (we are the third capstone team to be assigned to this project), most of our work has revolved around […]

Hello and welcome to my blog where I will be documenting the planning and development progress of a wildfire assistance application called Ops Normal – Initial Attack. This week has been a blur getting coordinated with my team and figuring out each other’s schedules and communication methods. Finding opportunities for communication itself is trickier than […]

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