Week 9 summary: Projects
The previous week we had the chance to pitch our ideas / projects in front of an audience and to the winners of the most voted ideas were assigned the rest of students to work in teams on it.
The winner ideas:
Mithi’s Uniteers: Create a platform to connect organisations with volunteers
Sam’s Booku Booku: A platform for exchanging books
Brian’s SP-A-M: Entertainment news
Leo’s Contractr: A platform that connect job seekers with organisations for contract jobs
I am in the Booku Booku team. The idea is was very simple but when we were getting deeper and deeper, we are actually facing many challenges how to build the project. The most important is I’d say the user experience side - how to simplified it to the way that people will actually use it / will be willing to ship books - in exchanging for points, not for money.
It is really great experience to see how to work in a team, cooperative among each other and have it synchronised well through git commits. Ohh... and I forgot that before the pitching on Wednesday we were going through rspec and testing our apps. But for now let’s have a look for the PHOTO of the WEEK:
Our lunch after pitching ideas on Wednesday 30th Dec.
The last day of 2015 we still had a class where we started to build the projects.
...HAPPY NEW YEAR...
I celebrated the New Year in KLCC - the twin towers in Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the twin towers, the side where was no firework... with million other people. It was quite funny see how people prepared their mobile phones to record the firework and basically nothing happened. Well...
On Saturday I spent my time in Starbucks balancing the year 2015 and planning / making goals for 2016. Today I was in our class with my team boss Sam and Ifran. He is playing here on a guitar right now and the MAGIC on Sunday looks like that - completely empty.
The next week will be our last one and then just final assessment on Monday 11th January. Slowly the end of it is coming...