December 3-5

Wednesday: 12:25-2:30
Thursday: 1:16-2:30
Friday: 1:16-2:30

     This week, I had some shortened class periods for my internship due to Keystone testing. This limited my ability to work, but I still tried to put in as much time as possible in the data scraping part of the code for the app. It's a bit of a struggle to find ways to scrape using javascript, though. Some of the other Byte Club members coded with me on Wednesday, and we found a way to use AJAX within javascript. The only problem is that it is difficult to determine whether or not the code is working since we have nowhere to print the result. I'm going to try to make a text file to print the source code gathered by the AJAX code, but I'm not sure how to coerce AppFurnace into letting me do that yet. One good thing about the week was that we had our monthly Byte Club meeting and some exciting things are happening. The groups are beginning to code, each has an idea and has started it, and we are planning on having a school-wide hour of code event next week.
     I've had another slow week, but there is a lot of odd scheduling between now and Christmas, so I will just have to wait it out and try to get some work done outside of school to make up for the lost time. However, the club is progressing well. Some groups take their projects more seriously than others, but the ones who are genuine are doing very well. Also, the experience of the Hour of Code event will hopefully keep the club alive in the next few years. This week has given me a good experience of the less than organized work environment that can be common in computer science jobs. there are often loose time frames for the actual workday, but very strict timelines for the progression of a project. So the next few weeks will hopefully teach me to get used to odd schedules while still doing the work that needs to be done.