Week 8

Week 8 has been a bit of a quiet week for Team Tribu. In the contact session, we had tried to setup version control for our project, and each team member installed Git and SourceTree on their computers. I have some experience with version control and using git, so also explained the basic concept behind it, how it works and how to set it all up.

Setting up Git and SourceTree

Unfortunately the setting up had taken up most of the contact session, however I felt version control is an important aspect of web development and code collaboration, and it’s worth understanding how to use it in regards to our own project.

The basic html/css templates have been created and uploaded onto the zone. I have also started to look at how Trove can be integrated into the project, and have tried some examples from the UQCloud site of retrieving images. I created a separate project to test a simple website retrieving a single image from Trove. Please note a lot of the code is taken from the source code of the examples given on the UQCloud site for testing purposes:

index.html - outputting an image from Trove

index.html

style.css

main.js

At the moment it seems the team has a good foundation to work upon: with the knowledge of editing and transferring files through FileZilla (or equivalent apps), version control and a clear direction of what the game will look like, it should not be too difficult to get stuck into implementation. The next steps are to continue understanding the Trove API, integrating it into the project and continue implementing the rest of the app - styling, content etc.