Sunday, October 16, 2016

PIVOT

So... Here goes final project.

We started out wanting to do Treatsure with Preston. Failed horribly because of contract issues. I think mostly the contract lost whatever credibility he had and then it just collapsed into something we couldn't do.

To be honest it's a good thing it collapsed. The scope and timeframe were rather infeasible. Glad we got shocked into our senses and pulled out.

So we moved into our next contact, doing Huntbot. This one actually hit a good running start - we had a good portion of work done - most of the backend work was completed, except we hit a snag when we went through the review with Prof Colin and he decided it was too simple. He proposed some improvements but none of them were in the realm of possibility.

We then went back for Project #3 - a marketplace for telemarketers. This one, unsurprisingly, got shot down too, by Prof Ben this time. He told us we're trying to solve a 2 sided problem in a field where we had no experience. Again, he was right. We had to drop this project too.

Thankfully he linked us up with one of his ex-TAs to do the project we're now calling PIVOT. PIVOT cos we're really sick of changing projects. Really. We're off to a very late start and we hope we can rescue this. In short, it's trying to kickstart the online tuition industry. As someone who's taught CS1010FC/S for the past 2 and a half years, this is terribly interesting... As I've hated online classes. The big question is whether we can make it a convenient and conducive environment for learning.

Features coming soon ;)

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