March 6th Status Report

This week I started to work on a midterm project in a group of three. My group was Alex, Roman and I. We worked well together and we are making a lot of progress. This Pizza Palace order form was similar to the payroll application because it also used dialog boxes. Having finished the payroll application a week ago, it was easier to finish the Pizza Palace dialog boxes. The order form had to allow the user to choose between a small, medium and large pizza and different types of pizzas including; pepperoni, mushroom, veggie or Hawaiian. The difficulty with the program started when we had to create a function for the user to make their own pizza, choosing from a choice of toppings. The user could also choose to order bread sticks and wings and also soft drinks, orange juice and water. After the user had chosen everything they want the total amount would be calculated. The next step of the program was making the option of changing the prices of the pizzas, drinks, sides and toppings.

My group has not yet finished the program, hopefully we will complete it on Tuesday. The hardest part of the project is just the very large amount of coding that goes into finishing this big project. The way we are working on the project is we take turns writing the code, if one of our group members is unable to do something we ask for help from our peers or very often we ask Ms. Emami for help.

This week my group faced a couple of problems, most of the time they were silly mistakes, but sometimes they took some time to fix. I learned about the shear time and effort that goes into making a program that is complicated. Even though I faced many problems while making this program I am still proud of myself with what I have accomplished this week as I feel I am improving as a programmer.