I am Myeong Jin, a first year engineering student working as an intern in Aeste. As this is my first experience in internship or any sort of working environment, I am excited to learn as much as I can for the next 10 weeks and upgrade my abilities. The first two days of internship at Aeste was spent on understanding GIT. GIT is an open source version control system which is essential to manage several contributors making changes in code Read more
This week, I started on refactorising the software code. The main purpose of refactoring is due to the current large chuck of repeating codes in different files. Thus, my responsibility is to refactor these codes into a single separate component file, which will then be included in all subsequent user files. If done well, the software will be more maintainable in the future, as most of the enhancements and changes can be done in the component file without changing the Read more
This week I was working on designing web APIs. An API was an “application programming interface” and it was needed to exchange information between different parties. The API paradigm that I focused on was Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Previously, the API paradigm used by AESTE was Representational State Transfer (REST). REST was all about resources and basic HTTP methods were implemented to do Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD). Thus, the four basic fundamental HTTP verbs were GET, PUT, POST Read more
In the previous week, there was a bug on a sorting algorithm for the user interface. As I didn’t have enough time to fix it for the event last week, I carried on fixing it this week. I managed to sort it out in one day and did the necessary testing to ensure it was working. However, one day before the event, when I carried out a final testing, to my horror, different tablets reacted differently to the sorting algorithm. Read more
I returned to AESTE as an apprentice. In these four weeks, I would continue to work on my previous project. First and foremost, I was advised by Dr Shawn to create a configuration class so that it would be inherited by different FPGAs and a factory method should be implemented. This would then allow the user to modify the type of FPGA used and hence a correct netlist would be generated from synthesis. After much consideration, I created a class Read more
Since the music competition where the web application will be put into use is approaching, I am more focused on deployment during this week. At the end of last week, I was done with developing the web application based on the client’s requirements. I also set up a virtual machine using virtualbox on my personal laptop. The reason for this is that the current operating system I’m using is Windows, while Linux OS is better suited for development purposes. Read more
At the beginning of the week, my supervisor showed me the way to set up the previous version of the web application that I am working on. To summarise the whole process, I have to follow a few steps: Import a .tsv input file into the database, Set up a local server network to use the admin interface, Set up another local server network to use the vuejs interface. However, we encountered some difficulties when importing the .tsv file and Read more
This is my second week of internship at Aeste. Last week, I spent most of my time learning a JavaScript framework — Vue which is essential in developing reactive web applications. This week, I’ll be applying the knowledge in practical, which I believe is the way for me to improve! As a brief context, my task in this internship is to work on a web application. This web application handles the scoring system of a music competition. The application is Read more
“The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.” I am Kai Jun and I am currently pursuing a degree in Electronics and Computer Science. This is my first week as an intern in Aeste and I am tasked to develop a web application during my eight weeks internship period. Previously, I barely have any exposure in the real-world software development industry, with my knowledge in this field all obtained academically. I always feel that Read more
I spent most of the time this week deploying two of our projects, P3 and S3. I started off with P3 first, since it was one of the previous projects where I contributed to its development. But while testing out the deployment, some bugs were already discovered. This is bad, since I am short of time. Regardless, I made the most out of my time left trying to fix the more severe ones. Dr Shawn also gave me some suggestions Read more
