This semester went by so fast! It is crazy to see how our progress has made over the entire length of the semester from Day 1 to now. I know for my group the puzzle, we have made a lot of progress and learned a lot. Getting a better understanding in HTML5, JavaScript, & CSS has been very helpful. Especially how my job has me doing some work at times with theses languages which make it easier now to understanding the code. The last bit of work left to do is the powerpoint presentation for next’s week final block.

This class has been a fun and a learning experience with new tools that will help us all in our future careers in Computer Science. Working with the Worcester Art Museum was just like working for a company or in my case it felt like I was reporting to my boss. I think the class definitely gave everyone a feel of what the future will be like in our paths and how it will be to meet deadlines for future managers (Tim in our case) to see for approval. Communication is key and this class really got us into that aspect of working as part of a team to complete tasks compared to any other college class.

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Over the past few weeks, the ideaLab app for the Worcester Art Museum has received the majority of its finishing touches. A lot of the time has been spent communicating with Tim and his colleagues on the visual aspect of the app as a whole; where things are being placed and what colors and images to use. The core functionality of the project is there and ready, it’s just a matter of getting feedback from the higher powers over at WAM and applying the changes that they desire.

On the puzzle’s side of things, it’s much of the same story. We’ve had the finished idea for a few weeks now, but our group has been communicating back and forth with Tim pertaining to a few things. He sent us a layout of a cover page to be the first page one see’s when they visit the puzzle section. This was just a matter of converting these images to the right size and placing them correctly. There was also editing done to the actual page the puzzle is on; images for the buttons have recently been added and other formatting issues have been taken care of.

Overall, this has been an interesting semester. This class provided a fun, and sometimes frustrating challenge. What I really am taking out of it is more than the actual programming and development – I think the class as a whole gained valuable real world knowledge. The process of dealing with a client and working as a group are skills people in the field of computer science must grow accustom to using, and I think this class provided that.

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This post is for others as much as it is for me. I’m using it as a point where I left off today and continue over the next few days.

I’ll start off with the success. Pinch to zoom somewhat works BUT it is very buggy to say the least. If the kiosk is used to disable the pinch to zoom, it should completely disable it and be at the point it was (a usable state). The problem with zoom right now is that it is zooming in the entire web page, but it is only being used when the image is clicked. Other functionalities will be disabled in the zoom sequence. What needs to be altered here is making the background static so it does not move and only the image is zoomed in upon.

Onto the other issue. I’m still trying to work on it, but the carousel is still not swiping. I have it all ready for the code to be put in. The swipe setup  is ready and it is acknowledging the swipe at the right time (using alert() I can tell) it’s just implementing it in. It’s tedious to test. Each time I have to upload the changes to the test server and test through my iPad. It’s an issue with variables. It just needs to update what gallery image needs to be centered. Using and array like galleryImage[i + 10] for example is what needs to be done, but a little more involved.

I’m hoping I can get this running up to standard before the semester is over. I would hate to drop it onto someone else.

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This post is for others as much as it is for me. I’m using it as a point where I left off today and continue over the next few days.

I’ll start off with the success. Pinch to zoom somewhat works BUT it is very buggy to say the least. If the kiosk is used to disable the pinch to zoom, it should completely disable it and be at the point it was (a usable state). The problem with zoom right now is that it is zooming in the entire web page, but it is only being used when the image is clicked. Other functionalities will be disabled in the zoom sequence. What needs to be altered here is making the background static so it does not move and only the image is zoomed in upon.

Onto the other issue. I’m still trying to work on it, but the carousel is still not swiping. I have it all ready for the code to be put in. The swipe setup  is ready and it is acknowledging the swipe at the right time (using alert() I can tell) it’s just implementing it in. It’s tedious to test. Each time I have to upload the changes to the test server and test through my iPad. It’s an issue with variables. It just needs to update what gallery image needs to be centered. Using and array like galleryImage[i + 10] for example is what needs to be done, but a little more involved.

I’m hoping I can get this running up to standard before the semester is over. I would hate to drop it onto someone else.

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Well there is just one more class Session before the semester ends.  Unfortunately we still don’t have a fully working program.  There is a possibility that work will need to continue during the summer.  Some students who will still be around have volunteered to continue working on it.  I as well volunteered for this, although I wouldn’t be much help with the coding side (not having as much experience with it as others) I offered to continue testing and helping with any Kiosk Pro issues that come up.

The good news is that Most of the individual pieces are working well, problems left are minor and mostly just polishing.  Once everything is integrated it will need testing to make sure that process didn’t mess anything up.

On Monday the programmed was reviewed, even if in pieces by WAM, I helped to explain some of the program and each group talked and did a demo of their own part of it.  I took notes on all the changes that they wanted in case anyone needed a reminder later on.  Most of these changes were cosmetic in nature and not to difficult to do according to the teams.

So far as I can tell this week no changes have been made to the code on the server for any section.  So I was unable to do any testing.  I was able to put together a simple word document instructions for setting up the other iPads. This should make things easier for WAM and also help reset things properly if the settings are ever somehow changed or corrupted.

For Next week will do testing on Tuesday (the last day of classes before Final Exam week).  In my blog I will list any remaining problems I have found in my testing as well as any issues from WAM that have not been finished.  I will also send that list out by e-mail to the group so that if for whatever reason I am not assisting in the completion of the program, those that are will have the most up to date list of needed fixes.

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The coloring app is finally done.  I was able to get the button png’s from the Worcester Art Museum this past week and I am happy to say that the app is looking great.  I had some minor functionality issues while trying to undo on the iPad but it is mostly fixed now.  The issue was that you had to click the button twice in order to undo a click event.  The fix was a simple as checking to see what platform the user is browsing on, if its an iPad I call undo and redo twice.  Its an ugly fix but it works.  I also added shadowing to the color page pictures and colors to let the user know what is selected.

I added the tool buttons to a canvas that changes color with color selection which make the color selected obvious.  All in all I think the app came out quite well and I cannot wait for people to try it out at WAM’s new idea lab.

Till the next project.

Jason Hintlian

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This past Monday, I decided to help another group with some issues they were having. Being in the server group with no issues on the server, there was not much else for me to do at the time. I looked on with Sompop on the Slideshow application, and helped him get it to work properly. The idea of the coding was done well, but there were a few syntax errors. The slideshow whould not change pictures after changing once at first. After a few syntax changes, the slideshow would run through cleanly. The only problem remaining was that it would not restart the slideshow. This problem was solved by changing “pageinit” to “pageshow.” This started the slideshow whenever that picture was shown, rather than whenever it was initialized. After this, the slideshow was working properly, and it could be pushed back into the development branch.

After this, I used Mike’s iPad to go through what we had put together so far. I was looking for any possible bugs. Mike’s iPad only has the free version of KioskPro, so it was difficult to find errors. One thing that I noticed was the dialog box that pops up when completing the puzzle. The title of the dialog box says cstest.worcester.edu. We brought this to the attention of the puzzle team so they could try to get rid of that. Other than that, no bugs or issues were found.

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So today was our 2nd to last class meeting and it was the day that we had a working framework of everything everyone has worked on this semester. I thought things are starting to come to a good point all working together. For the puzzle application, I had to adjust the css settings for the buttons due to testing on an iPad web browser to Kiosk Pro was different. I made that change and everything seemed to go good. Tim will be sending a couple new images to change out and other than that I think the puzzle is good to go! Its awesome to see all of our hard work this semester coming to a closing point. 

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