CS 373 Spring 2021: Kent Hansen #14

1. What did you do this past week?

This past week I worked with my group to get the visualizations for our site and our provider’s site working. We identified a library which is useful for making charts and starting implementing them. We also made plans for how to fix some problems we had with our site and make the appearance a little more clean.

2. What’s in your way?

Right now we are running into some issues with accessing our provider’s data and getting the visualizations to look good. We also have some work to do to refactor and fix some bugs in our site. We also have a lot of code to refactor too so that also needs to get done.

3. What will you do next week?

Next week, we will polish our site, create the rest of the visualizations for our site and our provider’s site, and create a presentation which we will record and present to the class later this week.

4. If you read it, what did you think of the The Joel Test?

This week I have some final papers due for other classes so I didn’t read the paper.

5. What was your experience of Replace Type Code with State/Strategy (227)? (this question will vary, week to week)

I enjoyed doing the exercises for this week. Since 312/314, the classes I’ve taken haven’t focused much on refactoring code or making code beautiful/readable. I appreciate the opportunity to explore this in class because it is something important that we don’t always get to think much about.

6. What made you happy this week?

This week I’ve been able to see a few different friends and invite people over for the first few times this whole year now that we are all fully vaccinated. After so long it’s been really good to connect with people again.

7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?

My pick-of-the-week for this week is nivo, a graph and chart library for react that is built on top of D3. My group is using nivo for our visualizations and it is very extensive with good documentation.