Week 5

Hello Blog-Viewers,

Welcome to another week of my blog. I apologize for how late I am with writing this post. I have two excuses: I spent the weekend volunteering at the Scottsdale Arts Festival which drained my energy and put me directly to sleep when I got home. Secondly, I was hoping to be done with the next portion of my program before posting. I guess this stuff really takes a long time because I am still in the process.

But here is what I did this week:

Thanks to Mr. Chen's computer science class, I was able to quickly put together a java program that lets ScrapZero employees edit the data that shows up on the iPhone application (previously discussed) without having to understand anything about programming. This program was supposed to look a little bit like the following:

Essentially, "New Data Type" adds a new column and "New Service" adds a new row in the table. Here you can click on any of the grey blank spaces and add new data to fill up the table. This JSON Creator program automatically sends the finished file out into the cloud where it is then transferred all the users' iDevices so that data is always up to date.

Unfortunately, AP Computer Science doesn't spend too much time on making GUIs or graphical user interfaces so what I came up with is  what you see below (on the left side of the screen.) The functionality is there, but I still need to make this appear more like the interface I originally designed in photoshop.

Although the JSON Creator app is not entirely complete, it has been satisfying to know that a simple computer science course in high school could be so helpful.