Team Lessons Learned

iOS Development:

• Completion handlers as a programming tool (custom instruction blocks)
• Universal storyboarding for simplified app universality
• Handling HTTP requests in a REST-based API
• JSON parsing
• Using storyboard segues to manipulate view and view controller hierarchy

• Eliminating view controller push loops
• Custom segues

• Running changes in the graphics on asynchronous threads
• Extracting primitive types from NSNumbers
• Using properties instead of creating variables in the interface
• Use of AppDelegates
• Adhering to well-defined coding standards pays off during debugging cycles
• Trying new ideas can lead to finding a better way of doing something
• Formatting and comparing NSDates
• How to debug and view data during code execution

Server Side Development:

• How to set up a node.js server
• How to open a port for communication on a linux machine
• How to open a port for SSH on a linux machine
• How to open a router to the world wide web
• Learned npm install to add frameworks/dependencies.
• The creation and management of express.js apps
• Mongoose (mongoDB noSQL wrapper).
• Mongoose models/schemas (Creation and deletion)

• Using PostMan to manually query the server to test models and the server.

• Adding instances of a model to a live database server.
• Performing database queries
• Using express.js routes to query the database.
• Asynchronous functions
• Callbacks
• Database management skills.

• Manual document creation and deletion.

• Proper error handling procedures

Source Control:

• Github for project management and source control.
• Github commands: push, commit, pull, fork.
• Learning about revision history on Google Drive
• Introduced to the Desktop version of GitHub versus using Git Bash

Team Development:

• Success with Agile development increased as collective work sessions increased; was skewed toward pair-coding paradigm
• Diagramming the system before creating it made for an expedited development process
• Create usable code when you are able to because it makes the development process simpler