The first days during this week we spent most of our time doing the frontend programming of the website. Doreen did most of the programming and I supported her. On Tuesday we got the Wi-Fi chip, then we did some wiring, soldering and played around with it to see it were communicating with the internet. On Friday we presented the progress of our project to our supervisors in presence was also Dr Leautaud.

 

On Wednesday we were lucky to attend the weekly meeting done by the Tech team, where two major issues were addressed: Coding Best Practices and Documentation by Dr Megan and Best Practice for Data Management by Betsy. Lesson learnt “best documentation is not needing documentation” in other ways the code should be self-explanatory by simply using meaningful variables names and being consistent with the naming style.

 

Out of work we had lots of fun activities, on Friday evening we together with Grant, Sarah, Jack and Jessie went to a Japanese party, we had an opportunity to a look at some of amazing art done by the Japanese, tested their food and danced to their songs. On Saturday we had dinner and watched a movie with the Rice interns who came to Malawi.