February 17-18

Tuesday: 1:25-2:30

Wednesday: 12:25-2:30

    Continuing with my app work, during the start of the week, I worked on uploading the information scraped from the clubs section of the High School website to our database. This wasn't too difficult to do, since I could use much of the code from the previous scraping code for the newspaper articles. However, the newspaper code needed to be a lot more complex than the club code did, so I had to trim unnecessary code out, change the name of the object each entry is stored as, and make sure that there was a club object in the database that had the necessary categories of data to be filled in by each object. My colleague decided to get started on 2-hour delay and no-school notifications. We made a few decisions on how we wanted that to work, and then he went to do some research on how to make it happen. We decided that push notifications would be the route we wanted to go, but we also wanted to have a notification center in the app that kept track of those sorts of things. The notification center might be a whole other battle, though.
     Additionally, on Wednesday, we had a meeting with all of the members of the student tech team that could make it. Unfortunately, all of the people that could make it were the people from Byte Club that already knew most of what would be going on. Nonetheless, we had a good meeting and got the general idea of the tech team down. We are going to try to set up a student help desk during school whenever people have the time, and we are also thinking about taking over the high school website for opportunities to code. The people who did come will make a great addition to the team and hopefully we will be able to get in touch with and meet those who could not attend in the near future.