Chronicles from our peeps.
With Electron finally up and Running I was told to get the Cordova App ready as well so I used a Plugin to add Cordova to my Vue project and managed to build an Android App that Emulated successfully. The Android App performed as expected except one minor problem. The Read more…
This week, I continued working on the report card which is to be sent to the participants. I used a CSV parser to parse the spreadsheet that holds the competition data. Dr Shawn has advised me to use a template to render the contents of the PDF in order to Read more…
I had expected plenty to go wrong on my first week; felt under prepared and built a hundred scenarios of how it might go wrong. However, it was quite the opposite, the place was very warm and welcoming, and I cannot recall a period in which I learned this number Read more…
This week was the first in a long while where the work and stress level were relatively on the more manageable side of things. Finalization was done for the application by making last minute cosmetic changes like adjusting the application icon and changing the application name etc. Electron was successfully Read more…
A bug has arose from testing the code for computing the final results of the contestants. It had to do with not being able to receive all the documents in the database. After investigating it further, I discovered there was a default limit set on the number of documents returned. Read more…
This week was spent entirely on debugging and testing to ensure that the final interface would be as seamless and optimal as possible. While writing my code I had overlooked some finer details with regards to how the data would change between interfaces when going from one role to another Read more…
To provide more value for the candidates in the competition, my task this week was to generate graphs which will be sent to them by email, that depict how well they did in relation to others. I started with using a TSV parser to pass the spreadsheet I generated earlier Read more…
This week went busier than any other in my internship so far. Since the start of the week till the very end I was constantly involved with one task or another. Having finished the final interface as per the previous design, I began wrapping up by adding the final touches. Read more…
During the seventh week, I made some modifications to the program for generating the PDF and spreadsheet for the competition results, such as including more data per page and adding date to the PDF. Next I tried finding a suitable library for producing some charts that can reveal useful information Read more…
This last week has been quite hectic and busy. With August 15th just around the corner I have had to speed things up quite a lot and any spare time I used to have previously is missing from my daily routine these days. With the migration to Vue Router and Read more…