Work done towards Project Part B (Wk 8)

With the upcoming due date of Part B rapidly approaching, our group has been working on their respective project parts in an effort to deliver our minimum viable product (MVP) for this deadline. As a team we decided that by completing our MVP for this due date would allow us to have a solid foundation for the Part B presentation, as well as allowing ample time to add extra functionalities to the website for the final demonstration.

The section of Part B that I was allocated regarded linking the Flickr and Twitter API's to show specific data for the current and each date. Going into this I honestly felt quite worried as this is only my second course in web design and I feel like this is a rather big task to achieve considering my relative intermediate knowledge and skills. I heavily relied on online and workshop sources to get a base of this code up and running and I took the following approach to do so:

 I first began by attempting to simply get the Flickr and Twitter APIs to output any information to confirm they were correctly working. Following this I tried to create a function that would the date the website was providing to it to then go and retrieve this data through the APIs. For the MVP this section literally just requires that data to be received and formatted into a readable form so this was essentially my goal.

 As of this current point I have been successful in just linking the Flickr API and I am still working on the Twitter API and calendar function. I believe that if I put enough effort in and seek the appropriate help in next week's workshops I may be able to successfully complete a task that was very difficult for me.

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