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@@ -177,3 +177,48 @@ The project current fulfills all LOs except LO6. I'll be working on that next. I have until the 25th. It's the 20th. 5 days left.   + +## Weeks 7 and 8: Finishing +The graphical user interface is complete. Interactive buttons associated with each font family +have been added. Their colors match with the color of their associated line. +When a button is toggled, a view of its associated font family's metadata is shown. +The comments have been checked over. + + + + +### Reflection + +Reflecting on the project, I am glad that I chose something relatively ambitious. +Though the project equals roughly 1000 lines of code, and is considerably larger than the minimum +acceptable effort, I am glad that I produced something which genuinely piques my interest. + +I made plenty of design changes. I basically understood the design of the program at the beginning, though +the details naturally didn't exist yet. I knew that it would be several hundred lines of code, though I didn't +know how many exactly. My best guesstimate near the start was closer to 600 than 1000. +I didn't expect JSON parsing to be as painful as it was. In hindsight, I was well aware +that I knew very little about properly parsing JSON. I still don't know much, as I used +the exact format of the provided JSON data as a crutch. Actually parsing the several kinds +of braces would have been much more work. + +I didn't initially account for the disk size of the actual font data. 2GB is too large +for today's networks to quickly distribute. It's a matter of downloading over the course +of minutes instead of seconds. To remedy this, I kept only the metadata files included +with the font families, and removed the actual font data from the git history. + +There is more that I would have liked to have done. Being able to collate the font families +into their distinct styles, as outlines in families.csv, would have been useful. Further, +being able to change the time metric used for measuring views during program runtime +would allow further insight. As it is, the view provided is relatively static. Easier +to read than manually parsing the three distinct files which contain data on each family, +yet still less than totally satisfying. + +If I were to restart the writing of the program from scratch, I would look for a parter +who enjoys writing the graphical front-ends of programs. That kind of code gets ugly +quickly. Ideally, a partner would also remain engaged throughout the project. +It is what it is. I enjoyed the project regardless. The workload was occasionally heavy, +though on the whole rewarding. + +### Learning Objective Demonstration + +https://mesacsclub.com/kaa/learning.mp4 |