Mimir:Spring 2017 Freddie Lochner Log


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Week Ending February 20, 2017

 * Task:
 * Become familiar with Mimir Wiki and editing.
 * Review past semesters' work.


 * Plan:
 * Discover how other textbooks present programming languages in general.
 * Coordinate with team to better define focus areas.


 * Results:
 * Learned MediaWiki editing
 * Finished notes for week 3


 * Concerns:
 * The team seems to have overlapping focus areas for Chapter Three.

Week Ending February 27, 2017

 * Task:
 * From minutes: create/fix code blocks and LISP indenting


 * Plan:
 * Learn more about Lisp through writing functions for HW2.
 * Compose examples and clean up Chapter 4 Lisp section.


 * Concerns:
 * Still learning Lisp and having a bit of trouble with the recursive versions of the palindrome functions.
 * Don't feel confident enough to complete my textbook tasks.


 * Results:
 * Spent too much time on HW2 and did not complete my task.

Week Ending March 6, 2017

 * Task:
 * From minutes: Will edit the master format at top level of chapter 3
 * Still have backlog for Chapter 4 Lisp section.


 * Plan:
 * Turn on Table of Contents and fix section headers for proper indentation.
 * Improve Chapter 4 Lisp section.


 * Concerns:
 * No concern except I told the team I would do it first thing in the morning so as to not get in the way of their edits (because I was going to work on the whole page rather than just one section).


 * Results:
 * Enabled and created Tables of Contents for Chapters 2, 3, and 4. Added "Back to Table of Contents" links to the main Textbook Index.
 * Finished early which alleviated my concern above.
 * Did not get much done with Lisp section.

Week Ending March 20, 2017

 * Task:
 * From minutes: finish the last two sections of Perl and look over the Perl section in general.
 * Write the GRC abstract. Submit it to the team for use as a poster primer.


 * Plan:
 * Add more to Perl and review flow of text.
 * Write GRC abstract based on introduction in the textbook and discussions with advisor on goals of the book.


 * Concerns:
 * Will the abstract be late? Our time-frame was "ASAP"


 * Results:
 * Perl is done.
 * GRC abstract came out well. Sent it to Nick for review and incorporated his suggestions.  No response to submission.  Was it too late?
 * Never heard back from team on progress or results of GRC poster.

Week Ending March 27, 2017

 * Task:
 * Per meeting minutes, Review chapter 3 and edit as needed, add chapter 5 table of contents


 * Plan:
 * Dig more into Chapter 3 content and see what can be improved.
 * Figure out how to get all the "1." out of the table of contents. Straighten up Chapter 5 TOC.


 * Concerns:
 * I think Nick is doing the same thing in Chapter 3. We didn't quite clear it up.  We talked about switching Sections for coverage.
 * Is anyone going to start on the GRC poster? Or make a plan?  I wrote the abstract as my share of the work.


 * Results:
 * Instead of content/style editing, I performed grammar and spelling checks, so as to minimally impact other team members.
 * Realigned Table of Contents up to Chapter 5.

Week Ending April 3, 2017

 * Task:
 * This week's focus is on the GRC poster. I wrote the abstract so the rest of the group is doing the poster.


 * Plan:
 * Help out where I can on the poster, but I'm going to limit myself to critique/suggestions.


 * Concerns:
 * I hope the group makes good progress.


 * Results:
 * So far it seems like there is decent motivation to get it done.
 * From the group emails it seems slow going.

Week Ending April 10, 2017

 * Task:
 * From the minutes, review Chapter 6 and come up with a game plan for for the group.


 * Plan:
 * Do some research on Scratch to see if there's something I didn't learn from the Scratch project.
 * Discover what's missing in the chapter and make a list.


 * Concerns:
 * Still concerned with the accomplishment of the GRC poster as our deadline is fast approaching.


 * Results:
 * Grammar needs a lot of editing. Should be updated to include elements of web-based Scratch 2.
 * Made some minor editing as I went through Chapter 6.
 * Implemented the table of contents.
 * I'm going to suggest or request that I stay on Chapter 6 as it's not a large chapter.

Week Ending April 17, 2017

 * Task:
 * Per minutes, Working on chapter 6, update table of contents and work on citation method


 * Plan:
 * Figure out how to make proper citations. Start Table of Contents


 * Concerns:
 * It will be hard to make citations for the old chapters.


 * Results:
 * The citation module for Media Wiki is not installed.
 * followed by   somewhere else of the page.

Week Ending April 24, 2017

 * Task:
 * This week I was excused from the meeting because I submitted my homework on time.


 * Plan:
 * Check grammar and spelling for Chapter 6.


 * Concerns:
 * There might not be enough to do.


 * Results:
 * I found lots to do since citations cannot be handled efficiently; spelling and grammar can always be improved.
 * Since the citation module is not installed, I googled suspected passages and paraphrased direct results.

Week Ending May 1, 2017

 * Task:
 * From minutes: Continue reviewing and editing chapters 5 and 6


 * Plan:
 * Improve spelling and grammar in Chapters 5 and 6 and make improvements to content where I feel it's needed.


 * Concerns:
 * None this week.


 * Results:
 * Accomplished some but not as much as I wanted to.

Week Ending May 8, 2017

 * Task:
 * From minutes: review and edit new scratch info in Chapter 6.


 * Plan:
 * When new material is posted by team member, review and edit new Scratch material.


 * Concerns:
 * Waiting to hear back from team member.


 * Results:
 * Received the go-ahead yesterday so I will have to make it this coming week's task.