The Final Push is ON!

I must admit that working full time and juggling 2 classes has been a part of my life the past few years, but the end is in sight now--effective May 4th there will be only 2 semesters left!  I must say that the two team projects this semester has really been a learning experience for me.  With both teams we had to overcome our personal scheduling (work, school and personal commitments) to accomplish our teamwork.  As the semester went on, I saw improvement in our communication, task assignments and even saw us looking ahead to the next problem early at times.  I learned a lot and gained confidence from accomplishing what we set out to do and wonder what else we could have accomplished if it weren't for the constraints of time holding us back.

Our last meeting was dominated by our patch creation.  Of everything we did on this project, this is something that we know we could have done better with.  Since we tackled 5 bugs and several improvements (instead of 1 big one) we didn't really think about making our patches as we went--which we realize now that would have made our work much easier.  We had the documentation and comments in our commits to cirdles, so "diffing" and making the patches wasn't too involved, but did take longer than they would have if we'd have done them individually.  I think we were so excited each time we met our deadline that we thought of the patch process as being done and enthusiastically jumped into the next bug.  We decided that if we sent 1 patch covering everything that Nathaniel could discount our entire patch if he disliked even 1 part of the patch.  By sending patches for the individual improvements/bug fixes we are confident that most (if not all) of our work will be incorporated in the next git update of the game.

The last remaining project for us (in this class) is to finish our presentation, and prepare it for our presentation on May 3rd.  Carlynn has started our presentation and has it on our subversion page so we can each add our parts and make changes as needed.  We'll work on finding times to go through it together before the 3rd and work out any problems we see, and then focus on our responsibilities for our other classes.  With the final goal at hand, we will push forward to finish strong...and for me?  Well, "Summertime's calling me."