Communication so good!

I realize also that communication was very helpful maybe our email is full thanx to the project but that's the way we know about everything for example this week they saw that it was on perforce the code of the other team of Mexico but it wasn't integrate it, so they let us know and in school we told us of course they already knew but in one class we talk about it and after the integration test it and saw that in generally the sound it was ok (that was the part they had to do) and that had some fun noices, we even discuss about they could give some mexican flavor to the tetris with some popular mexican songs.
So the communication is very important as for today we think we are ok with all the progress we had in the game an is functioning OK.

As the week started!

This last week because the implementation of the keys was OK we did little adjustments to the code and this was because as the week begins we realize that the code wasn't on perforce uploaded maybe it was some mistake or trouble afortunaly we all have a copy of the code sent it by email, so I dispose to uploaded and realize that in only one day or so the code was completed different so the new code didn't compile anymore!! But John came to rescue once again and helped me to integrate again the code with the new changes.
And all was ok again, we even test the game and it was quite fun!

not the right implementation

We achieve this week to put in c++ code what we code in C#, but unfortunely we didn't use GLUT we used Windows Forms because that was the only way we knew of how to implment KeyEvents In the design we didn't realize that had to be in GLUT because we didn't see that the other teams were coding like that, for me it was easiest to use windows forms because all is already pre-fabricated we don't have to worry about the render or painting of any object, and all the expected events are already constructed, I do realize that this type of project is for another means but I would like it to take a chance to see if these capabilitiees already made could function for our project, so when we try to implement it on the baseline project we realized that it can't be because they use GLUT so it was difficult because we had to understand from zero what is GLUT! we don't even know it, but finally John helped us to figure out an it has been a good co-worker for us because guide us for the right track. Montse and Sergio were the heros who achieved implementing to GLUT so we are very thankful to them also. So we hope it's ok the project and had minor bugs and details.

Doing our first lines of code of tetris

Today we had a meeting at school where we started to make a quick draft with some lines of code of how will be the methods for the movement of the blocks of tetris, I made a quick draft in C# for making a better understanding, In my work I develop on C# so it was easy for me coding fast in that language what we needed to represent, later on when we had the idea we passed to C++ but we hadn't enough time so as homework we have to try to make each method of the movement class. Hope everything flow as expected.

Designing doument for Tetris

We upload the designing document for the tetris game is a little vague for my taste in the eventHandler methods because we really don't know how it will be implemented to the block or object that will call this methods so we made like a guess and put the description, hope the next week could like make clearer the design as the implementation, I'm a little exciting about the next weeks how it will result the tetris game and I hope it won't be a mess or a complete caos when we decide to join all the modules.

Our designing for tetris meeting

Today we had a designing meeting with my team b for the design of the key strokes and the events necessary for the movement of the blocks, we finish the meeting with a good design I guess I even make a quick draft that how the code will look like for having a more intuitive way of creating methods. I liked make a design meeting because we all understand how will be coding next and how each method has a relationship with his own class or another.
Productive day.. I say.

Now our turn!!

Ahh! now we have to code it, not quite easy because we are now in the counterpart where we have to understand someone else code, and is funny but eventhough the team that made the design for us is in the same university we didn't program any meeting with them, I think is beacuse we see them in each class, anyway we understand ok the design and some troubles, well several, the thing is that we handle some methods for each of us and when we wanted to join in it in a solution it was a complete mess!! Nothing compile of course because none of us knows to programm in c++ but c'mon we though we read ok the forums and tutorials about coding in c++ but it started to fail when we join the methods so then we realize that it wasn't the way of doing it, so we make another effort for clearing the most errors we had, and eventhough we think we made a good job it was some rare fail at debugging about some memory location, but we couldn't understand what was it, 'till tonight I though it may be like c some sort of calloc and malloc, but it's a little late, it was hard but we learned the lesson.

Our first international meeting!!

For our convenience Collazos who is the new member in our team was on England for a year as an exchange student so he obviously would talk better in English than us, so he was the representative voice of our team, but we all were on Skype aporting some in voice some a little shy with text resolving any question the other team had, I think we did a good job and not in much time, we solve every issue they had, sadly my microphone wasn't working alright , I would love to practice my english a little bit. It was a good meeting!

Our design is for someone else!!

At last we had our design and we struggle a little, we had to know exactly how it would work the logic of our list before putting in practice, and later on to know that someone else is going to code it, we wondered if they will understand it, with our experience we saw that  It is a little different to make an UML for each language it won't change a lot but you have to put the correct syntax or you won't be doing the things right! With our knowledge shortage in C++ we had to do some little research to know how the UML would change for c++.

What a week!!!

Well, this week was a little difficult because we had a lot of things to resolve before submitting the homework, creating the design in group is not an easy homework because each of us has an idea of how the project should be. And also we had the meeting with the other team, so we should have an excellent understanding of our whole design before explaining to the other team. It was a little hard because the uml we did it before the document of the definition of each method, so later on we saw that the uml had to be changed.

By the by... a skype meeting some time another weeks!

Also in the design meeting we stablished that once the design is done we could talk with the team that make our desing come code by Skype and know the people who will code our desing.  We are excited to know by video and voice the people who will try to understand our design and talk with them to sort of make a quick review of the design for better comprehension, we are excited, hope we speak english alright for them to understanding, we are going to do our best!!

Today a design meeting

I think this is my first official design meeting, not even at work I had a design meeting like this were we structured the things to be done but also understand everyone the problem and make some initial drawing to know how it would be more or less our final project, it gets a good feeling some kind of security that we know what we are doing, first time I appreciate the design first than the code, I mean I had some courses for designing software but this time I felt it for real lol!

Ohh I was the team leader!

For the 1st Project I was the team leader and was a litte reconfortating to know that the overall process for getting done the homework was made by my way, when you let a homework important in the  hands of some one else you don't know it may be a little intrigating to know if the project is going to result alright. Now for the 2nd project is going to be Montse a friend I know for quite some time, so I'm sure she would guide us for the right way.

How about the 1st Project!

Well I had almost time for submitting the homework about the 1st Project, so I didn't write much, but I have to say it wasn't so easy, it was a little hard get the unit tests done, but finally I did it, I had trouble with the void methods that are painful because of the lack of public attributes, and we can't made modifications because well.. it wouldn't be a complete test if you modify the code right?

Anyway, I finally did it and answer my questions about the project!

Selecting for tests

I selected 3 classes from the project Cyclone and 3 methods of each class. I hope isn't extremely difficult to understand and create the unit tests, I wasn't very good on physics so I hope I can manage it. The code doesn't look very simple, another problem is that I haven't ever code in C++ so is not my language of expertise hopefully I will  deliver a good homework. We had fun in our meetings setting up the environment, rules, agenda etc.

I'm the Team Leader!

The team chose me  for being the team leader for this project I believed is a big responsability because you have to be there for everyone if something goes bad, but I also hoped we can work good together as a team.
I believed that the difficult part is getting the organization righ on track as the tasks, once we have all in a rutine we can work fluently.
Today I was with my team in the second meeting for making the right path for the 1st project
We take some pics!

Starting something!

We had our first meeting on  Wednesday and I'm happy with my team because we know each other since we started our major and we are all the girls in the project so we are very happy to be together =).
And also the other team member Victor we know him from a long time.

Don't connect Perforce from school

I've noticed that from our university Perforce can't connect, so we would be doing our uploads in our houses... just a thougth

At last!

At last I could finally stop having an error about installing Microsoft SQL Compact 3.5 in vs2010 when I opened my solution in C++, I'm not used to this language but I will improve my homework I sent on Saturday...