CSC 490: Team Dugong Project Blog

On this week, we focus on discussing and fine-tuning our proposal for the first sprint in week 7. We first look at different possible back-end database for our app. When deciding between a SQL or NoSQL database, we looked at the differences between scalability, data storage model, and database schema. Looking deeper into this, and listen to Dr. Stonedahl recommendation of Firebase, we concluded that it is the most fitting choice for its inherent compatibility with Android, cross-platform potential, scalability, and tutorial/resources availability. However, since all of our members have no experience with a NoSQL database, we think there might be a learning curve to get used to. About our design choice, we gathered feedback from our cross-group discussion from last week, as well as brainstorming about the difficulty of different functions of LocalHobby. With the 2-3 weeks timeline in mind, we decided to take some functions out of our original proposal, namely the nested tre...

Hello World! This is the inaugural post for the Augustana College CSC 490: Team Dugong Project official blog. In this blog we will sort do a run down of the different things we are doing each week with our project. Our team consists of three members, James Compere, An Nguyen Dang, and Nicholas Dippner. The project we are doing is an app called LocalHobby, which was thought up by An. The general idea is LocalHobby will be an app that people can use to find other people in their area who have the same hobby as them and while using the app they can interact with those people through chat rooms. Currently we are in very early stages of the project, still making use cases and user stories and story boarding. This week our main progress was making a detailed proposal of our project for the CSC 490 class that we are doing this project for. The proposal consisted of a four page write up where we gave a detailed description of the rationale behind the project, the features and requirements ...