And we’re off!

So now we have officially begun working on the Naar project. It’s been a moderately busy two weeks since my last blog post but there really haven’t been much of my work to show. Most of my work in the Naar project have been in planning so not too much to show off from there. On the programming course we had a one day assignment to write modifications to a simple API, I probably would have shown it off here but I wasn’t happy with how my version turned out.

This is why i should make sure to write a blog post every day, i keep forgetting the details about how or why i did my work. It feels so empty to write about things i did more than three or four days ago.

Anyways, today we worked all day on the Naar project and it felt like a good start. I set up a physical work log and made notes of all the tasks for this sprint. I read about it on one of the many books I’ve been going through the last couple of weeks(i think it was The Lean Startup). I’m reminded of how i did a more primitive version of this in the first year’s Theme Park project when we were getting towards the end and had a lot of do. I felt that that time it helped me keep track of what we were doing and what needed to be done. Hopefully this will help us in this project as well.

Like this one but with more post-it notes

During the rest of the day i looked through the blueprints from the old Naar project from last summer’s BGP to determine what parts could be useful for the current project. There was more than i expected which should be usable even if just as a reference to logic or math, although there was also a lot of redundant or outdated code which had been left lying around when the design of the related function got changed at some point. Hopefully some of these can be reused during our iteration process in this project as test versions of alternate designs. Most of them are fully functional but simply didn’t fill the right requirements for the old project.

I’ll try to finish each day by writing a blog post to reflect over my work during that day from now on. (Or else i’m going to be in trouble when it’s time to write the report.)