I had my first project meeting with Christine today and met with Lorcan, Steve, and Graeme. They talked to us about our first milestones such as setting up a blog, picking a version control system, and our initial reading and research. They told us about a few useful points to bear in mind during the project, such as collaborating with each other and setting up a sort of support group between the six of us through our blogs. Collaboration between different projects can look good when it comes to grades :-) The blog will be used for keeping track of our meetings, our thoughts and ideas, and generally everything we do for the project. A lot of this will be very handy when it comes to writing our reports. One thing that we will not be forgiven for is not backing up properly. Something I learned well when we lost most of our first year project. It is also worth trying to get as much as possible done before the second semester which sounds like its going to be a bit of a nightmare...
Lorcan went through my project with me and talked a little bit more about it. This was good and definately gave me some ideas with where I can go with the project. He will be giving me the hardware I need with in the next weeks or so. I can also email Caitlin who took this project during ODCSSS which is cool. We'll be having our next meeting probably on Monday. For the moment im gonna go pick a version control system. Ooooh
2 comments:
Good first post. I've all the components for your project laid out on my desk now and am playing with them, checking that they work. I'll mail you Caitie's address now and send her your blog. Keep up the good work!
Good first post. Glad to see the excitement over version control ;)
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