Version 1 is out!

Er Mah Gawd! I have version 1.0 of my program out to my customer.  It has very little functionality, but it is just for initial feedback to make sure I'm on the right track with their requirements.  I've had a patch already, so I'm up to 1.1 really... but on to version 2.0!

Navigation - Success

So I finally managed to get navigation between views working in an MVVM style using MVVMLight and parts of this tutorial.  I am so happy that I have finally gotten that out of the way.  I did it in a different project so I'm just going to move all of my existing Views into this project rather than try and figure out how to put all the references and such in the correct places into the old project.

Things are starting to look up for my final year project.

No Motivation

My final year project was going so well in the first few weeks of university - I had my feasibility study done, my project brief looked good, I had a good plan leading up to Christmas - but now I have gotten about 2 weeks behind according to my Gantt chart. I need to salvage my time before it gets any worse.  I'm working doubly hard over this weekend (I'm going to bed now so I can get some good sleep) and I have a nice plan for tomorrow and Sunday I'll play by ear.

It's not like I wanted to get behind schedule.  My project is for a seasonal company and their season is quickly incoming.  I have basics down for the actual coding, but I still haven't finished the design schedule (I'm about halfway through) so I can't really continue until that is finished, but I'm meant to be having daily meetings with the proprietor (as a mini scrum kind of meeting) and then weekly with the proprietor and her partner to show my overall progress, and I'm finding it hard to think of actual programming progress to show them (when there isn't any). It's a real business situation (minus the money) so I should keep it quite professional and stick to the schedule but I'm finding it so hard, especially with other bits of coursework to do before Christmas and copying out my lecture notes in full.  Maybe I've put too much on my plate. I can't wait to have a weekend to relax again.

Fit Criterion

I thought I had completed my Requirements Analysis and Elicitation but then realised I had not added the Fit Criterion into the requirements.

Fit Criterion is the test as to whether the requirement has been successful.  It involves looking really deeply into what requirements you have written and digging really deeply into what they mean and what your customers (the system users) want.  Luckily, my parents are my customers, so I can just ring them up, day or night, and ask them what they want and how they want it to work.  However, writing all of these requirements seem to be taking FOREVER!  It didn't help that while I was writing them that I had a migraine.  That's probably why I forgot to write the Fit Criterion into the requirements to begin with.

Feasibility Studies

I have to say that my Final Year Project is all going off to a rather good start.  I'm currently working on my Feasibility Study for my program.  I'm feeling very business-like.  I've been conversing with my clients (my parents) about the functionality they need/want.  I have a couple of goals set, as well as some 'ultimate' goals (goals to work towards if complete all of the original functionality.

I've also been working on getting the order form on the website working to go live on Friday (4th October, 2013).  I'm currently just working on getting the prices to change when the customer clicks on the 'Quirky Trees' checkbox.  It's taken me an hour and a half roughly to get just one working from an array with html tags inside (I'm using jQuery).  But getting it to change the rest of the prices should be easy now; I'll just implement a for-loop to change the rest of the prices.  In the PHP side of things, I'm just going to have it replace the price part of the string with the correct 'quirky' price.

My lectures started today and, I'm happy to say, I'm very pumped to get this year off to a good start.  My lecture notes have been copied onto Dropbox and tutorials have been completed.  I've already been given my first bit of coursework (other than my final year project) and it's only day 1!

It feels like this year shall be a good one :)

Final Year Project

So today I started working on my Final Year Project.  I'm back in Loughborough now after a wonderful and relaxing summer holiday, but now I'm in full work mode before my lectures have even started!!

At the moment I'm just getting my project management site up and working, along with sorting out all the requirements my customers have given me.  At the moment I am just getting them all down in one place, but I shall be working on analysing them within the next couple of days so they are still fresh in my mind.