Over the past week, I have worked on our Proposal Presentation, which covered a lot more of the details of our project. I focused on outlining our technical challenges, solution approach, solution justification, and material decisions. I helped Sam prepare to give our proposal presentation at the beginning of the week.
I spent some time researching software design solutions for a crowd-source / data-sharing application, considering different user interface guidelines and security guidelines. With respect to UI, our application should be simple and should contain useful visual cues to help the user navigate. With respect to security, our application needs to take measures to protect against cross-site scripting and SQL injections, which can be done through semantic and syntactic input validation. I also worked on the design proposal and ironed out the specific implementation plans for the software frontend and backend.
My progress is currently on schedule. For next week, I plan to set up the Github repository, set up the Django framework, and finalize our design proposal and presentation.