Thursday/Friday catch-up

I neglected to write my Friday blogs and the week review, So I'll do it today instead

Thursday
On thursday I spent the morning working on the forms some more,
At the meeting with Janet and Marianne I showed the form design so far, and we came up with a fantastic idea. The Idea is to use some ol laptops that aren't being used anymore in each of the learning spaces to gather data while students are there. We decided to have a prototype ready for Monday in the user centre so my focus on Friday would turn to posting to a file.

The problems that started to appear were that my code is getting more and more complex and beginning to look a bit cluttered, so I'll need to do some refactoring when I begin to combine the 3 forms.

Friday
On Friday I spent the whole day writing php code that can write responses from the form into a text file. the reason was not to have structured data, but just to show I could post to a file.
I found this to be much more of a hassle than I assumed, becausi I had to first set up an XAMPP server configuration on my laptop, and my laptop didn't like that I had another installation from a while ago, but i still managed it. The forms still need some time, hopefully i can work on them on Monday.

Overall for the week I spent most of my time on the implementation rather than the design, which i was very happy about. we now have a solid start that can only be improved over time.