Easy Stir Fry Weekly Log

BD App Weekly Log:

1 hour group meeting to confirm the final structure of the project idea [Garrett and Stephen]
1 hour meeting with Ethan and Prof. Feher to discuss ways to go about actually doing the project [Garrett and Stephen]
30 minute meeting with Ethan and Prof. Feher discussing our replacement to the night light project [Garrett and Stephen]
- Replacement project is creating a basic calculator that accesses a basic database
- Planned to use Node.js instead of python or some other language in the project
- Discussed possibility of taking project further than planned (coding in the entire stir fry ticket selections, working with B-School to actually implement the app) [Garrett and Stephen]

2 hour group work session
- Updated/Created weekly log [Stephen]
- Worked on project proposal [Garrett and Stephen]
- Signed up for AWS, created a team repository on Bitbucket, ran into trouble figuring out the set-up regarding coding and creating a database [Garrett and Stephen]
1 hour meeting with Ethan [Garret and Stephen]
- Ethan provided many needed specifics regarding setting up a server, creating a database, and creating the UI and EI (employee interface)
- Went over Gantt chart tasks
1 hour market validation survey in BD [Garret]
2 hour group work session
- Created presentation slides, updated project wiki objectives [Garret]
- Formatted project log/wiki, Re-did/finalized Gantt Chart [Stephen]

Weekly plan: finish basic calculator project in lieu of night light
- Creating a database, server, UI
(Sunday) 1.5 hours of watching Node.js tutorial videos on YouTube via youtuber "The Net Ninja" [Stephen]
- Learned about using Atom and Node.js, functions, express functions, creating a local server, and monitoring requests to that server
(Monday) 1 hour of watching Node.js and MySQL tutorials [Stephen]
- Installed packages, attempted to create MySQL database
(Tuesday) 2.5 hour group work session [Garrett and Stephen]
- Watched videos, researched code in attempts to create a database and commit files to bitbucket
- Struggled most of the time, still unable to create a MySQL database successfully, commit files to bitbucket, or make much progress at all
(Wednesday) 1 hour meeting with Ethan [Garrett and Stephen]
- Set up repository, database, talked about basic calculator project, set up BitBucket

(Wednesday) .5 hours spent creating step-by-step tutorial following our steps [Garrett]
(Wednesday) 1 hour spent coding basic calculator (side project) html/javascript file [Stephen]
- Attempted to run through localhost and file://localhost without success, attempted to run javascript file through an html index without success
(Thursday) 3 hour group work session [Garrett and Stephen]
- Polished up calculator UI, researched how to run the javascript file through a server
- Successfully ran the calculator file in chrome

- Shortly after was able to set up an http server with the http-server package in node

Weekly Plan
- Start thinking about wireframes and UI formatting
- Start working on database schema in addition to the formatting, they will be closely related
(Tuesday) 1 hour: learned about using MySQL workbench, formatting schema, and created a database table [Stephen]
(Tuesday) 2 hours: created a list of necessary user inputs, created wire-frame for customer-facing UI [Garrett]
(Tuesday) 2 hours: team met to discuss progress, share data, and make goals for the next meeting [Stephen and Garrett]

(Tuesday) .5 hour: watched workshops on SQL and html development
(Thursday) 1 hour: met with Ethan to discuss process and future goals, linked our workbenches through the RDS [Garrett]