Back in April, I was asked to attend a development workshop in Colorado. I had no idea what it was about, but my professor was going and he really wanted me to get this experience so I said yes. On Saturday the 18th, the day before I was to leave for Boulder, I get a call from Dr. Bowring telling me he could not go; however he still really wanted me to attend this workshop. I flew by myself from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte to Denver and then found my shuttle that would take me to Boulder and there I got checked in to the apartment style inn.
At first I was pretty anxious about the whole thing because we were to split up into teams and create our own project. I had no idea what I was doing, but finally figured it out by 1pm. A small group of app developers sat next to me (who created Fly Overcounty check it out) so we formed a team together. We started building our project with Ionic, a cross platform app development framework which makes things much easier than separately making an Android Studio project and Xcode project.
Because we've been having so much trouble developing CHRONI with Xcode lately, we've decided to switch over to Ionic. We will have the same issues with getting up to speed on how things work, but it has much better documentation. The other added bonus is that it has a MVC style work environment and is very similar to some of the work we did last semester in Server Side. Needless to say, this change will be easier to manage and won't make our heads explode.
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Here is the article the department posted about C4P: Where in the World is CS Faculty
