Cody Smith monstaro

What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects? Agile is a much more efficient and safe process than waterfall. With waterfall, you invest large amounts of time and money into a project, essentially betting that the end product will be successful.

With agile, you can get constant feedback and make minor improvements with every incremental release. You can really utilise 'iterative development.' This ensures you don't waste time on pointless features, and can improve other featuers based on specific user feedback.

How did you and your group approach project management in this project (what tools did you use, how did you hold each other accountable, etc.)? We utilised Trello projects boards in this project. We made sure that if we ever split up for a night that each person would have a certian piece of functionality to work on. Otherwise, we worked together.

What's Cookin'?

A project by Zack Nemeroff & Cody Smith

MVP

We think a reasonable MVP would include a site that allows you to...

Favourite a recipe,
Add a recipe (most practically from our favourite recipes) to a 'recipes to cook' section.
Search through our favourited recipes, search recipesToCook, and search by ingredient.

Classes & Methods

Who Are You?

I am a front end web developer currently specializing in Javascript. I am working to eventually become a full-stack developer. Personal health is very important to me, I enjoy spending my free time doing some sort of exercise (yoga, lifting weights, running, swimming) or creative activity (writing, playing music, photography, visual arts).

Writing clean, dry, modular code is very important to me. It's satisfying knowing your code is refactored as best as possible. I enjoy the marriage of creativity and logic that comes with being a developer.

Who your contact is, why you want to connect with them, and what you want to talk about

Matt Kaufman - discovered through PD and found we are from the same hometown

When you will contact them by and how you plan to meet

At the end of the Mod, could meet up for coffee.

What your follow-up will look like once you've met with them

What is your understanding of gender, gender identity, and biological sex? Is there anything more you need to learn?

Biological sex can differ from gender identity. Someone born as a certain biological sex may identify as a different corresponding gender. Biological sex and gender can also be on a spectrum.

What was your familiarity with the history of women and software development? What surprised you about that history?

While tech may be seen as a male-dominated field these days, in the early days of software development the field had a huge number of females.

How do you see gender bias playing out in tech?

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What is a "framework?" And how does it differ from a "library?"

A 'framework' defines your application design, and is basically a different way to organize your code. Different frameworks have different control flows. Many popular frameworks seperate code out into many different units to make code more maintainable and reusable. This differs from a library in that when using a library, you are utilizing the unique syntax of that library, but that syntax calls functions written JS or whatever language you are working with. For example, the $ in jQuery really just represents a manually written document.querySelector in Vanilla JS.

Why should we consider using a framework over vanilla JS like you have been doing in mods 1 and 2?

Frameworks allow for greater efficiency. Not just efficiency in UX and how code gets processed on a site, but also efficiency in workflow. Code is more modular, reusable, maintainable, and easier to navigate. This is especially helpful in professional settings when you will

Times Available

Expect occasional afternoon hours to be taken up for exercises (running, lifting, getting swole)

Available most of the time, Cody has occasional band practice and we will try and not go too crazy on the weekends. Get the bulk of our stuff done after class time.

Times to bust shit out: Work time, and we're okay with basically just sprinting after class into work time/into the early evening if needed.


	Group Member Names:
	Cam Macrae - Cody Smith
	What feedback did you get on Dog Party today? What was your biggest takeaway?
	Cam - Didn't use media query in HTML head, not enough semantic tags. CSS a bit unorgnized, attributes scattered etc.
	Cody - Decent semantics, clean, but some artifacts in code. Javascript DOM Manipulation works but could be more efficient.
	Goals and Expectations for the Project (You don't know the details of the project yet. But as you go into any project, how do YOU define success?)
	Don't put in code that we don't completely understand - either take the time to grasp it, or come back to it later.
	Set mini-deadlines for iterations, specific goals etc.

	Project: Intention Timer

	Group Member Names: Ryan Novak, Cody Smith

	Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):

	Build quality javascript, understand each line that we write.
	We will know we're successful if each of us can explain all of our functionality.