April 21st, 2020

Now that the craziness of relocating from campus has subsided and Zoom conference calls are becoming the new norm, this past week we were finally able to really dive back into the project and plan towards the future. With the recent news that we will be unable to travel over this summer, we have decided to focus more heavily on web app development in the next ten weeks. Our hope is to have a functional web app that allows to user to easily enter and access data and view summary statistics of this data as well as print barcodes and scan them into the system. To that end, we began wire-framing (coming up with a design for the user interface) at the start of this week and now have a design which will enable us to move forward with the actual build-out of the web app. Additionally, we have conducted research into what barcodes we think would serve our purposes well and how best to integrate barcode generation, printing, and data entry into the web-app by reviewing various available packages. In the coming weeks, we will be moving into high gear, focusing on completing a functional user interface for a homepage, barcode generation, and fast data entry. At this stage, there have been some difficulties with scheduling around different time zones, communicating with Zorzal, and only working over Zoom, but we remain optimistic that we will be able to face these challenges and overcome them in the coming weeks.