Documentation Through Photography

After documenting my daily life through photography, I discovered that my life is very routine-like, as looking back through them all, I noticed how I'd do the same sort of things every weekday. The greatest challenge of choosing only 12 out of 24 photos to add to my final essay was how I had good photos from one day, and another equally good photo from another day that was exclusive to that day, such as percussion club and drama club, or when there was snow one one day, but there was none on another. I decided to follow the guideline of consistency, in order for it to appear as if the photos were all taken in one day. Dorothea Lange and her photography influenced what I took pictures of as I simply seized the moment of opportunity when I saw a potentially good photograph. rather than simply doubting myself.

Engineering Journal

I have begun to create a website in order to help users navigate the PATH system. I am using the website known as Weebly and utilizing information found on both the official PATH website and Wikipedia. I plan to incorporate a number of features. I have finished the History section, which details the history of the Subway system. I am attempting to work on the other sections such as Directions and Station Information. The Station Information section is going to require some field work and testing. What I mean by this is that I will need to go out to all 13 PATH stations and gather information in order to put this information in this section. The Directions Section will probably be the hardest as I need to figure out how to program the buttons in order to respond to a combination of two buttons and then write a script for how to get from Station A to Station B for each combination. While there are 169 different combinations theoretically, that includes when you input the same station twice, and going between 33rd and 23rd as well as 23rd and 33rd for example. It should not be too hard, but I need to figure it out. I also have this Gantt Chart in order to show how I am going to work on the different features of the website. One can find it in the Google Drive link

11/5/18

Today the group made gradual progress on the project. Max and Joy learned Python and practiced on Youtube. Sophia worked on updating her software, which has proven to be a tedious task. We will continue to practice coding and updating software, hopefully all software will be up to date by Wednesday and the app can begin to develop. The only problems encountered was that the software previously installed on the computer is so out of date that to update it one has to do it in small increments. However with time, this will be an easy fix.