Recent Posts

• September 17, 2020

  Releasing My Life in Months

  This week marked the first official release of a web application by Disco Tray Studios. We have finally sent off My Life in Months into the world! This is quite the historic achievement by our little group, and I’m excited to know that this is only the first in the huge array of projects that we have in store for Disco Tray Studios. Right now we have people setting up our official website, and other people setting up a little demo project to run off of our school’s servers. This demo project is intended to educate us on how to integrate our projects into the school’s servers. I’m excited to contribute to a website that won’t be hosted on GitHub!

• September 10, 2020

  Making the Work Easy for the User

  The user interface part of a program is one of the most important aspects of any successful and widely popular system. As a programmer I frequently find myself overlooking the user interface part of my projects. Personally, I think it’s because I am lazy and don’t feel like it’s worth my time to play around with a bunch of different stylings and formats that don’t affect the performance and capabilities of the program. If I give myself enough time, then maybe I’ll work on making sure that anything I add looks similar to what already exists in the project. That’s about as far as I’d used to go.

• August 28, 2020

  First Week of Disco

  This week marked the first full week of school of my Junior year at Hendrix and the first official full week of starting work at Disco Tray Studios. We currently have two different projects being worked on by the five members and Dr. Goadrich himself. The first one is a neat little website call My Life in Months. This website allows the user to create a colorful chart that visualizes their life. Each square of the chart symbolizes one month, thus the name “My Life in Months.” This project is the one I have dedicated most of my time to so far. I have worked on a couple of bugs, a button that populates the charts with pre-made examples when pressed and some buttons that allow the user to upload and download CSV files of their charts. The second project that other members of Disco Tray Studios are currenlty working on is our official website. The purpose of this website is to explain our goals and have links and information to other projects that we have made. Two of our members are working on finding a stylish template to use for our website, so we don’t have anything working at the moment.

• December 17, 2019

  SW Reflection

  Through this course and working with City of Hope Outreach in Conway I have learned and applied many skills that will benefit me throughout my life and career. Some skills that I was able improve through this experience are my communication skills and planning skills. In order to complete our main project, our entire team relied heavily on communication to plan out each aspect the project. I have participated in many group work assignments throughout my three semesters at Hendrix, but none of those assignments demanded the amount of communication that was required to smoothly plan out at create our semester project. I learned how to use many different group management software that resemble what I will have to use whenever I get a job after college. We were also required to communicate with our client Ambra McPeters to schedule meetings at appropriate times and discuss what to prioritize within our project. Through our communication with her, we were able to recognize and understand the needs of CoHO and give her the necessary tools to make her work more efficient.

• November 01, 2019

  Using jQuery and APIs

  The Khan Academy tutorial was adequate for this lab. It gave clear instructions on the uses and purposes of jQuery. The most frustrating part about combining APIs was finding a way to combine two different APIs in a way that made sense. Neither of my chosen APIs were really related to each other but I thought that I found an interesting way to use the capabilities of both of them. The user draws cards from a deck they can generate using a button. Each card they draw contributes to a score. The score is the number used to get an interesting fact about the number of the score. I found that getting each API to work was very satisfying. I anticipation many more problems especially because the APIs aren’t under my direct control.