T1 Retrospective

Trimester 1 Group Project (‘NART Movies’) Contributions

My contribution to the group project was somewhat limited this trimester. Since backend API work was claimed mainly by Torin and Nandan and there wasn't much room for additional work there, I was primarily restricted to frontend development for the project. However, I did accomplish several critical tasks within the frontend space.

I made a total of 47 commits over the course of the development of the NART-Movies front page. These included 1163 additions and 695 deletions.

• Majority of present frontpage save titles and navbar was made by me
• Scrolling behavior, styles, background, etc. but these are mostly CSS so I won’t cover them

• Similar applications to the other areas of the site, but these are also relatively small contributions

• Primarily responsible for pushing the rec system in the original design
• This here is an early draft of the HTML scripting

• First draft of rec system shown here was mine, but the final version was contributed to by all members of the team

Individual Work

Student Lessons

• Boolean If
• Iteration
• Algorithms
• Lists
• Procedures
• Simulations

College Board Quiz Notes

• Q6: The Internet Engineering Task Force is a volunteer organization dedicated to developing standards and protocols for internet communication.
• Q23: This is asking for present redundancy or lack therof. (B) has only one route between devices P and S so it is the correct answer.
• Q41: (B) adjustedTotal <- Max(midtermExam, finalExam) + finalExam
• Q43: (A) The algorithm runs in reasonable time (n^2 computation steps with n inputs)
• Q45: P AND Q -> True when both are true only | NOT(P AND Q) -> False when both are true only. (C)
• Q46: Here ‘undecidable’ refers to unsolvable, so it is not possible to solve the problem for all programs and inputs (D).

Independent Work

• Asteroids/PythonText
• lc/Kepler
• CNN

Reflective Summary

Learnings

• I learned how to use JS at a non-trivial level
• I familiarized myself with the concepts of APIs and web data storage despite not working with
• I learned how to use ChatGPT as a coding tool
• I familiarized myself with web design overall and the HTML/CSS system

Improvements

• I let other responsibilities take away from my work time signficantly and so I didn’t perform as well as I could have
• No reason for staying out of backend (I only crashed the server once), and I could probably have made more contributions in Python backend
• Application of personal skills was insufficiently beneficial for the team (Do more Python)
• Navigation of the personal blog was made difficult by the lack of a coherent organizational system
• Team recording of plans largely supplanted individual plan recordings by Unit 3 but I should have kept at it

Goals for T2/T3

• Actually learn JS applicability (I know how to do things in JS but not what things can be done)
• Familiarize myself with ChatGPT coding applications while retaining independence from the tool
• Force myself into Python backend no matter what