Before starting the FlickTwitter task, we discussed some of the things that would be due over the following few weeks such as the Work In Progress Presentation, Progress Report and Blog & Portfolio (which is still due ages away). The Presentation would be done next week and apparently, we are expected to not only say what we have changed since the first presentation, but also show all of our coding and progress thus far. This is happening in next week's contact class and no ones even started any coding in our group. I guess one of the purposes of this presentation aims to make groups start on their projects.
After this, Khoa drew up a concept map sort of thing for the different types of applications that the different people in class were doing, such as games and map related applications. The purpose of this was to divide up all the parts in the application and assign roles for each member in a group who would do them and when they should be done by. Im the only member of my group in my workshop so i didnt do that but i drew up the concept map for The Aussie Wild Challenge.
I then went back to doing the FlickTwitter task but got stuck but Khoa was busy helping other people. Then i logged on here to blog today's post so far and Khoa is still busy so my FlickTwitter task is pretty useless right now. I am now waiting. I cant think of anything else to write for today's blog.
I actually didnt know about the Portfolio until an hour ago. I remembered it being mentioned in the first week but didnt know anything about it until it was mentioned again briefly in the workshop just before. As i am reading over the assessment overview on the course blog now, im being reminded of so many things i forgot about. I just read that I need to attend at least 80% of workshops and contacts to pass this course (thankfully i havent missed any so far). The online reflective journal (is that this blog?) and portfolio are worth 20% each - i didnt know that either. The two reports are only 15% each and the final project is worth 30%. I didnt know any of this. This waiting period has proved to be pretty useful. Yes, im still waiting.
Do these posts need to be formal? Because mine are getting so informal each week. Why am i asking this on here? I do not know.
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I am continuing this post now at night because during class i finally did what normal people would do and moved onto the next step while waiting for Khoa. The next step required me to continue my work by following the steps on www.webdevdoor.com/php/authenticating-twitter-feed-timeline-oauth/ which was actually really detailed, so i guess i finally knew what Khoa meant last week when he said the steps were really explanatory (and i disagreed because i didnt go through the real steps yet).
During the next hour and a half or so, i went through the steps and occasionally got confused but eventually figured everything out. I didnt finish all the instructions but i was up to one of the last parts where i had to apply the given codes with my access tokens and consumer keys. The only thing that stopped me was actually not being able to locate my consumer keys that they were supposed to give me (such a silly reason i know). I had all my other keys though.
Where I got up to. Instructions (left) & coding (right)
I purposely took the photo to be blurry in case you were judging my photo taking skills by the way. I couldve taken a screen shot like what i always do but according to the website, i need to actually keep the consumer key a secret. The key "should never be human-readable in your application", it says. Hence the blurry quality so that its not readable. I think the way they wrote it made me feel pretty scared, my consumer keys not even on the screen (i couldnt find it remember), so yea i dont even know..
At the end of class, Khoa was finaalllyy done with everyone else just as i logged out. He asked me whether i had finished everything and reluctantly i said that i hadnt with the biggest yet most shameful smirk on my face. I overheard him asking this to many others in the class that also hadnt finished and he told everyone else that first thing next class, they had to show him their progress. But i honestly dont remember him telling me this. Maybe my grin saved me. But i guess its one of those things one must assume and be prepared for anyway.
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