October 2-3

Thursday: 12:55-2:30
Friday: 12:55-2:30

     To end the week, I am still researching. I feel that I have a better understanding of what I am looking for and planning, but I still do not know enough to feel completely confident in programming it. On Friday, I had a meeting with my mentor and he agreed to help me in the research process, but he also taught me some of what goes on behind the programming. We looked into our school's servers and databases for examples. I'm glad that I got the opportunity to learn this because I feel that understanding the back-story makes it that much easier to understand what I will have to do. If I can better know the processes that go on in these components, it will be easier for me to make my code coexist better with those processes.
     At home, I have created an SDD for my fellow club members and have given it to the other officers and my advisor to look over and add to. Hopefully, it can soon be distributed to the club members so that they will be able to begin their projects sooner. I'm excited to see what comes out of the ideas our members have, and am probably more excited than they are for them to get started. I hope that either over the weekend or early into next week I will be able to finish my own research so that I can start my own project.
     This week has been a little painstaking, but also very educational. I'm excited to actually get started with my project, but I know that if I were to start right now, I would only make a mess of it and make it harder to complete in the long run. So, for now I am stuck planning and researching. However, it is a good taste of the real world. When I see the accomplishments of others, it's easy to think that they could come up with and complete their endeavors in a week or so, but actually going through the process is a good wake up call. Projects such as these require persistence and a lot of hard work. It will be good to remember this so that I won't be so easily put off if it takes longer to complete a project than the few weeks I unintentionally imagine it will take.