Project Status Report 2 Web Programming, Ming Chow
Team Six Barry Eom * Julia Hedrick * Ben Solomon
Project Title Job-os
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What was accomplished during the week?
This week, we began to link the different pages of Job-os. After we switched to a new design last week, we spent recent days converting the remaining pages of the website. Most importantly, the navigation bar now allows users to browse what we have to offer. The "add a job" page was added, which allows employers to add jobs that they are looking to fill. The forms on the review a job and add a job pages were updated with submit buttons and dropdown options. The dropdown options will help us to ensure the right information is being submitted for fields where specific options are required. We have early versions of:
-Home -Review a Job (data is not yet being stored) -Find a Job (placeholder while we work on MongoDB) -Add a Job (data is not yet being recorded) -Map (still very early as we have not connected it to data)
We also continued our discussion on MongoDB. After completing Assignment 3, all members of our group now have a good understanding of how to store and manipulate data. While working on Assignment 3, our goal was simply to push the website as far as possible without a full Mongo implementation. We are now ready for the next step.
What challenges and issues were faced during the week?
Bootstrap continues to be both helpful and challenging. While we have done our best to understand the platform, it can be difficult to integrate into the project. It remains a central part of Job-bos since design is so important to us. We will spend the next few days preparing to teach the class about Bootstrap!
What are the goals for next week?
Over the new week, we will finally start to add MongoDB into Job-bos. Our project is fairly static at the moment because we have no data. But once we can dynamically add and remove job records, it will quickly become a useful tool. We will build a Mongo database, connect it to our project, and write the code necessary to let users interact with Job-bos. Having stored data, the map page will be able to have markers of available jobs that include its rating and link to reviews.