Day 11 – Project Transit Notifier
To do: Work on Jquery calls so I can use the transit stops for my user, and work on pulling the information from a web~formWhat I did: This morning's lecture was about runtime. I found it really interesting and I wrote a note to go to all my functions and write out their runtime. I do get confused with the names between O(n^2) and O(2^n) b/c I want to call O(n^2) exponential, when it really is quadratic. I think I'm going to leave the names alone and go with just O(n^2) instead. The sense of how things grow if your input grows made a lot of sense to me. I kept thinking "what is the equations proportion?" and for me that makes sense. How proportion is the work to the amount of work your giving it. I did have a flash back to 9th grade math with Mr. Eaton and it was great.Today was about debugging!
I debugged my web-form! It was an issue with my flask not getting the information from my webform. I tried looking it up and go over the class notes, but I couldn't figure it out. I knew it was something small - I felt it in my bones! So I asked for help, and yup. It was that I didn't have the "id" in my html, so my flask wasn't able to grab from my form because it couldn't "see" it. I changed my "id"s to "name" and it worked! Yes!Awesome! I am getting my data from my form. Perfect! So now I try it again and oh no! I have a weird error:
"KeyError: SQLAHEMY_TRACK_MODIFICATIONS" Oh no. I looked it up and I couldn't really find an support for what I was doing. So I jumped into the queue. Leslie helped me out to debug this guy. It turns out my database wasn't being connected to my server, hehe. So I got that going. Then another error: "InterfaceError"... hmm.... interesting.... turns out that sqlite doesn't like tuples(geolocation). So I had to go through and change all of my functions to separate my geolocation to lat and lon.
SUCCESS!I can go from my webform, process my data and insert it into my database! *does a little dance* Got all of that done! Awesome! So now it need to figure out celery (does asynchronous task queue/job queue). Celery will take care of my processing my queue - I have the function already done that it need to handle, I just need to connect it to Celery.To do Tomorrow: Work on Twilio, Javascrip (JQuery) to populate the stops and Celery
My Thoughts/Process: Once I was able to get unstuck, I felt so much better. It was fairly easy to debug my issues, I just needed support with figuring out that form. I guess this is a good lesson to pay attention to details and to really check every single part. I felt productive and re-energized (it could have been the fact that I slept for 9 hours on Saturday night and about 12 hours on Sunday night). I also got really amazing news today - which I cannot share until I know for sure - but to say the least, I am very excited for my future :)