Kopernik - Cagkan Demir, Ilke Bayer
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Week 1
Date: 01/30/2023
Attendance: Andrew Deskur, Cagkan Demir, Ilke Bayar, Prof. Merwyn Jones
Accomplishments:
- We had our first meeting of the new semester with Drew and Prof. Jones. We looked over on what we did last semester and discussed our goals for this semester.
- Moreover, we got our first tasks of this semester. Prof. Jones stated that we have to simplify our source code and also train ourselves for FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
- We started of this week’s project by simplifying our code. We had 3 separate functions of each satellite; we successfully made these 3 functions into one. Also, we added command lines on the top each function about what the function does.
- Furthermore, we moved on to the second task of this week. We trained ourselves about what FTP does and how can we use it on our project. After we learned about FTP, we got into a conclusion that FTP is not necessary and not helpful for our project.
Problems:
- We believe that File Transfer Protocol should not be implemented to our project. Because of its major disadvantages, implementing FTP will be unhelpful and unnecessary to our project because of the reasons listed below:
- Even though we can add and delete files with the FTP, we cannot sort them in the folder.
- We believe that captions are one of the most important parts of our website because of the information that shares to our viewers. Since we are operating on Linux, as you know, we cannot change (or even view) the captions on the OS, and we do it on the Nextgen Gallery. If we implement the FTP to our project, we will be unable to change the captions as we wish.
To-Do:
- We will discuss the details with Drew and Prof. Jones about the prospective implementation of the File Transfer Protocol.
Week 2
Date: 02/06/2023
Attendance: Andrew Deskur, Cagkan Demir, Ilke Bayar, Prof. Merwyn Jones
Accomplishments:
- In the last meeting, we settled our new goals for this week. Even though we simplified and added command lines last week, Prof. Jones stated that the source code can be much clearer to understand, and he asked us to add more command lines. Furthermore, as for a new task, he asked us to find a way to change or view the picture descriptions on Linux.
- We started of this week’s project by changing variable names that are the same but have different uses and we changed them to eliminate confusion. Furthermore, we added even more command lines with clear descriptions.
- Then, we moved on to the second task of this week. We looked upon how to view the captions on our OS, Linux. We found out that the captions/descriptions are called “metadata” which we think we can build a function to view the “metadata” on our source code.
Problems:
- All NOAA18 files that got into our system on Feb 5 3PM are broken and they are all same.
To-Do:
- For the next week, we are going to develop a function to view the captions on Linux.
