This week we’ve gone further with the planning the CTF and gathering data from it, we brought this up with both our coach and our liaison to get there thoughts on the details we confirmed so far. We got some excellent suggestions on incentives we could use to get a sizeable number of people to come. We’ll be using these alongside the suggestion from our coach to reach out towards certain UF clubs to ask to both use their space and get their members to compete.

We also have begun testing and implementation of the Chart.js library with the features we are adding to Hacker Jeopardy. The library was exactly what was needed to make the analysis pages work and display the data including the custom icons for each type of data point. This test was done separately from the overall system of Hacker Jeopardy, but the code for the activity log graph is mostly complete. We just need to create a page to hold it and the other analysis graphs which will be our focus.

This was the week of our first QRB, focusing on on our plan for the remaining semester. We prepared well for this presentation, gathering all the work we have done so far from planning poker results to the login system being improved. Just gathering all the information together really put in perspective what our next plans should be, and what we’ve accomplished so far. After the presentation we got a lot of good questions on our plans and feedback for the project as a whole, which we will be taking into account during the following months.
In particular we got feedback on the scale of our project, and the feasibility of completing all the requirements, and increasing the degree to which we assign roles in the project. These will definitely be considered and talked about during our next meeting with our liaison. Overall, however, it seems we are on track which is great to know and we’ll be sure to continue researching, developing, and testing to the best of our abilities!

This week we’ve started to get back into the swing of things and begin working on the project more. This includes refining our plans for the semester that we made back in the Fall. We’ve been making plans to get user feedback on both a full session of Capture the Flag/Cyber Jeopardy, and specifically on the login system.  

We’re also gathering data from the source code to make in-depth documentation, that started in the fall. This will include details on imports, exports, variables, what each method and class does. This should make working on the system easier for both us and whoever wishes to work for it in the future. 

Finally, we have also implemented one change to the login system, that being to automatically log someone in after they create an account for the session. This should, of course, make logins much less painless and much faster. 

We’re back from Winter Break, ready to begin full development on the project. We’ll be working in a through a multitude of sprints using Agile methodology. We met up in the new classroom for the class and worked on getting reacquainted with what needs to be done this semester, and the schedule. We also have set up a new time for our liaison meetings and our meetings. We hope we’ll be able to fulfill all the requirements and finish the project.