Monthly Archives: January 2017

Reflection: Week 2

Second week was mostly spent on setting up the required environment and resources for our project. We also started learning Angular 2.

We created Trello accounts and then our specific Boards. Trello looks very promising for recording our groups Sprint Backlog, Doing, and Done lists. We also integrated the Trello bot into our Slack channel through which we can get direct notifications for the cards going around. Moreover, we introduced ourselves in OpenMRS. We also setup WebStorm IDE from JetBrains. While using android studio I was quite familiar with the UI of IntelliJ IDEA, which is also a product of JetBrains.

In the course of learning Angular 2, we specifically did the Tour of Heroes tutorial that covered the core fundamentals. Overall it was fun to build the complete working app.

Looking forward to learn more on Angular and run WebStorm.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Software Dev Capstone by osworup007 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Week 2 Reflections

Reflections on Week 2

This week was actually pretty good for me. I think that our
team works well together and that it is going to be a productive semester. This
week I was able to get my accounts set up with OpenMRS and trello and learned a
bit about Scrum and finally started to put it to use. I like it because I am
finally putting everything that I have been learning so far to use or will be.
Aside from getting the basics set up we are going to be using Angular this semester
and I have never used it before. I am familiar to some extent with Javascript
but I feel that I have so much more to learn with Angular even though it is based
on JS.

I went through the Angular Tour of Heroes tutorial here and I have to say
that though I enjoyed it, I am still a bit foggy and will be going back through
it and doing another tutorial I have found. I am fairly comfortable with a lot
of it, but when it came to routing and navigation I felt a little lost so I am
going through some more on that area. I really like how the framework actually
works though and think that it is going to be a great experience this semester
and hope to be proficient with it as I hope to get into Web Development of some
sort and I know that this is used a lot. It doesn’t really take a lot to get an
app off the ground running, but digging deeper is going to be fun. I really
like how it is easy to split your app off into multiple modules or components
as your project gets bigger. I am confident that it will all come together
though and I will be proficient before I know it.

I am looking forward to what this week brings and what new
challenges are ahead of me. I am taking everything as it comes in and trying
not to put too much on my plate and so far I have been able to do that.