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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 of the app, along with specific use cases and user stories for the project, and a detailed, non-hand drawn story board of the app which goes through each screen of the app and how they are accessed.



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