Wednesday: 12:25-2:30
Thursday: 12:55-2:30
I took a day off of school on Friday to visit Rochester Institute of Technology since it is on my top 2 list of potential schools. So, during the end of the week, I added some research and background info on RIT to my agenda. I interviewed a staff member of our school on his experiences at RIT and was pleased with what he had to say. I also took some time to research the individual majors that RIT has to offer in the computer science field, since they have such a large number.
The rest of my time was spent in a similar fashion to the rest of the week: coding or designing or reading up for the app. I started looking into how we would insert RSS feeds into the code of the app. There were a few resources that App Furnace provided, but they seemed a little outdated and some were blocked by our school's filter. However, it doesn't seem very hard to implement the code. Additionally, our club advisor contacted a student she had a few years ago who now has a lot of experience coding professionally and, more importantly, making apps professionally. He is planning on coming home for Thanksgiving, so our advisor and I have been trying to coordinate with the team about a time to meet up with him and get some insight from him for our project.
This week, while not very eventful, was useful. I didn't want to get too ahead of the rest of my team while working on the app, so I tried to stick to small jobs that needed to be done. This week I learned that despite my lack of ability in the field, I find the UI side of development to be fun whereas many others do not. This will be useful so that I can enjoy my work even if I get stuck with the booby prize of all of the jobs.
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