Day4

As usual, today started with Stand-Up at 9:30. Today was a bit different since Rachel wasn’t with us. Regardless, after stand up was over we met with Mary again and she gave us a form that she wanted us to work on for one of Field2Base’s clients. We were actually able to get it to work and we tested it on the android application to make sure it would be fine when the client tried to use it. It was really cool that we were able to work on a form that would actually be given to a customer! After we got the form working, we met with Howard who showed us a bit more about SQL and databases. We briefly met Howard on Tuesday, but he was gone Wednesday and Thursday with his family. The meeting lasted about an hour, and afterwards we ate lunch at the office today. Once we were done eating, Howard assigned us a challenge to try and complete to test our knowledge. We spent the rest of the day working on accomplishing the task since it ended up being a lot more difficult than it seemed. The task was to try and create a form that had a drop-down menu where you could select a name from a list of names and then it would fill in the rest of the data for that person. The trick is that the data all had to come from an excel file, so it was a separate challenge trying to link the form program with an excel file. He also tasked us with using an API to find out the city and state of a student based on their zip code by pulling the zip code from the excel. This was by far the most challenging part of the assignment; however, by getting help from both Mary and Howard we were able to get it all working. By the time we finished the challenge, we were exhausted! Shortly after, we packed up and headed home. Can’t wait for next week!

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