January 26-28

Monday: 1:25-2:30
Tuesday: 1:25-2:30
Wednesday: 12:25-2:30

     This week, I started to work on some scheduling with Microsoft Project. during 7th period, I got some time to try and make a tentative schedule for the remaining components of the app. I am hopeful that we will finish before the end of the school year. This kind of scheduling is difficult for me because I'm not necessarily certain how long each section of the creation should take, so it is even harder for me to decide how long I should let them take. This is good practice, though, so that in the future it might not be quite as difficult to accomplish.
     I was also able to work on the app with one of the app group members who has begun a student assistantship with some of the instructional technology staff. We began to take on the task of data scraping for the app. We decided that Python had the tools that would make it best to use for scraping, and began research and download of the necessary software to make it possible to begin coding in Python. The most important tool we are going to be using is called BeautifulSoup, which is a Python library that makes parsing source code very simple. This is very important because a lot of the resources we are going to need to scrape are inconsistent in their labeling, or would simply not be fun to have to scrape on our own, especially since we are not very familiar with Python yet.