For the completion of our project, we decided to set weekly goals or what they call 'milestones' that we interns would aim to achieve every week.

On our last post, we mentioned that the goal of our yet-to-be-named project is to provide documentation for a certain application. To do this, we insert screenshots of that app, determine the areas where information is contained, stick annotations to them, and link those annotations to lessons which would give the user information about that part of the app. But then after a week, we thought of this and that, and asked how about this? and that? then we realized, why not use something more than a screenshot?

When we had a meeting with the big bosses, one of them stated that it would be a nice feature to make the screenshots as real as possible. What that meant was, if the actual app had a link to another part of the program, and if that certain link in the screenshot is clicked, it should be able to do the same thing. We all agreed that the idea was good, however, how to do it? Then one of our faculty interns gave an incredible suggestion (credits to sir eugene): why not incorporate the actual application itself!  After much talk and arguments, we came up with a final decision: scrap the screenshots, we're going live!

Now comes the hardest part, how? The only solution we had in mind was to use, (chedeng!) html iframes -- inline frames. This means, instead of inserting a screenshot, we get the url of the app, put it in one of the iframes, and there we have the live application, as if the user is browsing the real application (which is actually what the user is doing). This is definitely more powerful and cooler than using screenshots but it comes with great price, it's definitely harder to handle. And what's more, this is only a part of our yet-to-be-named project, and there's much much more details to consider and think about. On the positive side, it may be very difficult but it's a start. A start that has an end, hopefully. Good luck to us!

We are inviting and encouraging everyone to join the DevCon Geekup: Cebu" Friday, May 21 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

From now on, we, the Codrschool Student Interns (3rd batch) are gonna be posting here in the blog to give our readers updates on the events here in Codrschool (clap clap!).
And for our first post, we'll give you a sneak peak on our collaborative project. Here it goes:

Our main goal in doing the internship is to encourage learning among some of the best students and teachers in the computing field today.  We want our interns to learn new and alternative ideas to what they learn from their respective schools and to apply this new learning in developing new products or services.  We then expect that this learning will continue to grow and to spread to other fellows in the computing field.

Last April 15, Thursday we finally welcomed our interns for 2010 at the start of their internship program.  We have 3 students from CIT (El, Louella and Jojo) and 1 from UP (Edson).  We also welcomed 2 faculty members from CIT (Deep and Eugene) who will be a part of an immersion program with CodrSchool in order for them to learn more about web applications and other topics in general and hopefully then apply this learning to their classes when they go back teaching.  We are also waiting for a UP teacher (JJ) to join us soon.  We are looking forward to starting a project with him that he can then continue with some of his interested and talented students from UP.

Hello!

Hello!

University education is good for CompSci people.  This is where you learn the basics like Programming 1 and 2, data structures, introduction to networking, database management, etc.  This is where you will also get the Maths, the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences and other things you may not care about unless you are required to get a grade for them.