IRC log of #sjcompute for Wednesday, 2025-10-15

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danielcGood evening arbaaz 20:49
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danielCHow are you svaye 21:01
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svayeGood evening danielC and arbaaz 21:05
danielCGood evening jelkner 21:20
jelknerGood late evening to you too danielC 21:20
svayeGood evening jelkner 21:20
jelknerand to you too svaye 21:20
jelkneri'm still the only one here21:21
jelknerso it's just the 3 of us so far21:21
svaye+121:21
danielCSo arbaaz is not part?21:21
svayeI don't think he's active right now danielC 21:22
jelkneri'm not yet sure who arbaaz is21:23
jelknerbut several of the club members stayed "logged on" for days after our last meeting21:24
jelknerit's because they are using a web hosted irc client21:24
jelknerand they never logged out from it21:24
jelkneri'm planning to teach them to do that this evening21:24
danielCNo, arbaaz just joined. I was here before him21:25
jelknerahh, arbaaz are you here?21:25
jelknerand if so, who are you?21:25
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jelknerdanielC and svaye, arbaaz, aryac__, devesh, and Damon are all here now21:35
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jelkneri'll let you all introduce yourselves to each other21:36
aryaHello, I21:39
DamonHello, I am Damon, a highs school senior, 18 years old in Arlington Virginia21:39
deveshHello, Daniel and Shallon!21:39
aryaHello I'm Arya. I'm a high school sophomore in Virginia, U.S.. It's nice to meet everyone.21:40
arbaazHi, I am at Washington Liberty High School in Arlington, VA. Nice to meet you!21:40
svayeHi everyone, I am Shallon, a member of Jetrowebdevelopment in Liberia, and a college student. Nice to meet you guys.21:41
svayeHi devesh, how are you?21:41
deveshI'm doing well, Shallon. How are you? 21:43
svayeI am good.21:44
deveshGood to hear that all is well. 21:45
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danielCHi everyone,  I am Daniel Cammue,  a member of jetroweb Development,  a Web developer business based in Liberia. Am a college student at the University of the People and the University of Liberia studying  business administration at UoPeople and business management at University of Liberia. Am also learning bookkeeping as well21:48
danielCHello devesh 21:49
deveshHi Daniel 21:50
danielCLonger time 21:50
sahnun__Hi Shallon and Dnaiel, long time!21:50
jelknersvaye and danielC, we don't want to keep you late this evening21:51
jelkneri just wanted you all to say hi to the rest of the club21:51
jelknerwe meet here every two weeks21:51
jelknerso the next meeting will be 10/29 at this same time21:51
jelknerby then we will be ready to start gnucash21:51
danielCYeah sahnun__ , how are you?21:52
svayeHi sahnun__ how are you?21:52
sahnun__Good good, how are you guys doing?21:52
danielCGreat 21:53
svayeI am good.21:53
sahnun__Good to hear :)21:53
danielCYeah:-)21:53
sahnun__I heard about Thomas' mom, I hope he's OK.21:53
jelknerdanielC and svaye, we are waiting for Amar to show up, and i'll be talking to him about the website he needs for his business21:54
jelkneri'm thinking Thomas could be one of his mentors for that21:54
danielCOkay 21:54
jelknerand gabriel and mulbah could learn Django along with Amar21:54
danielCYeah sahnun,  he's trying to get his mother in a proper care21:55
danielCjelkner: is there any other person we are awaiting beside Amar? 21:57
sahnun__Yes I spoke to him today, he's doing his best. I pray she gets better soon.21:58
jelknerdanielC, you don't have to stay21:59
danielCBecause you were saying that we were going to talk about the tax filing 21:59
jelkneri only planned to keep you for 1/2 hour21:59
jelknerdanielC, devesh is the one we need to ask about that22:00
jelknerved did all of that last year22:00
danielCdevesh: 22:00
jelknerhe told me devesh was making progess, but he wasn'22:01
jelknert ready yet22:01
jelknerso he'll have to have a baptism by fire22:01
jelknerwith you too22:01
jelknerved isn't here, but his sister arya is22:01
danielCSo have SECOSOL filled for the past two years?22:01
svayewe can all learn together jelkner 22:01
jelknerthose he has been ghosting the family according to her22:02
jelknerwe have an sjc board meeting sunday22:02
jelkneri hope to see him there22:02
svayecollege has a way of taking you away from the world jelkner.22:02
jelkneryes svaye, i know22:05
svayejelkner, like I mentioned today I can't access the IRS website now, is there an alternative you or devesh could suggest for me to go to as it relates to knowing more about the tax system of the U.S?22:05
jelknerso svaye, we are going to get you a VPN22:05
jelknerfor now, just wait22:05
svayeOkay22:06
danielCjelkner: https://www.irs.gov/. Is this not the link22:07
svayejelkner, do we have an agenda for today's meeting? or is it just for introduction.22:07
jelknerAmar just arrived22:07
jelknerthe agenda i sent out had two items:22:07
jelkner1. introduce svaye and danielC to the group22:07
jelkner2. talk about Amar's website22:07
jelknerthen Amar texted me that he would be late22:08
jelknerso we couldn't start item 222:08
jelknerbut now we can22:08
svayegot it22:08
jelknerso Amar, i've been waiting for you22:08
AmarHi guys22:08
svayeHi Amar, how are you?22:09
danielCHi Amar22:09
Amarim good how are you?22:09
svayeI am good22:09
jelkneri'm trying to understand the conversation we had22:10
danielCI am fine Amar22:10
jelkneryou need a website for your car detailing business, yes?22:10
jelknerthat is your "senior project", is it not?22:10
Amaryeah pretty much.22:11
jelknercan you give me (and us) some more context about what the school context is?22:11
AmarI am a senior doing the The International Baccalaureate (IB) dimploma22:12
Amarand in order to get this diploma i have to take certain classes, including Computer Science22:12
AmarSo for IB Computer Science (IBCS)22:13
jelknerwith Paul Bui22:13
Amaryes 22:13
jelknermy former student22:13
AmarI am required to make a "project" for the class called IA 22:13
Amaralso known as Internal Assesment 22:14
jelkneris IA a CS class?22:14
AmarNo, its a "final project" for all Ib classes I take22:14
jelknerthe reason i'm asking, is i need to understand how much we can help with the website22:14
jelkneryou told me that you have to get the website, but you aren't required to write the Django all yourself22:15
Amarand where I write a roughly 2k word essay about the subject area22:15
jelknerso Amar, i already talked to both Thomas and sahnun__ about your project22:17
jelknerthey are excited to do it22:17
jelknerso we should start working on that soon22:17
AmarSmall issue is that it primarily the back end functions has to be written/done in python by me, but the user interface like visuals, user interfrace, and stuff can be done from soemwhere else22:18
Amardo you guys have a any questions?22:20
sahnun__the main function of your backend is to manage scheduling? We should probably keep it minimally complex as far as frontend features unless that's a bonus for you.22:21
Amaryes pretty much and to collect basic information and data and store it in a file.22:23
sahnun__Ok, so you want data on each specific appointment or metadata about the web visitors22:24
sahnun__i.e. what kind of basic info?22:24
Amarhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1owsMAvS-bhW8bIxcX5siKx_Vt7WX7w5pAaJvNaDjurg/edit?usp=sharing22:25
AmarHere is my Plan that I had to create pretty much 22:25
AmarLike, Name, Locations, Time slots, What type of service, and other informations related to that. 22:25
sahnun__Got it, perfect.22:26
AmarAny other questoins?22:27
Amari just have to be careful not to overstep the rubric of the assigment22:27
jelknercan you please get us the rubric?22:28
sahnun__If you could add the service types that would be good. You'll probably want to start thinking about things like "how many characters will this column be at the longest" "is this a number or a string (word), all things you'll need to define for your Django model. Depending on how fast you want to go, this is all stuff that shouldn't take too too long as a beginner.22:28
jelknerit would be a great activity for Thomas to build a reservation system in any case22:28
jelknerAmar, if you are prohibited from using it for you AI22:28
jelkneryou could still use it for your business22:29
jelknerafter you finish your AI22:29
jelknerright?22:29
sahnun__You'll also want a date of appointment, date of registration, 22:30
AmarI am allowed to Use AI22:30
Amaryeah I agree22:30
sahnun__Think about all the things you do in reality with a customer.22:30
sahnun__When booking, what info do you collect?22:30
sahnun__Those are the columns for your Bookings table.22:30
sahnun__You may want a "Customer" table where you simply link the ID to the booking.22:31
Amarlike information like : Name, Date appointment, Date registered, Location of the car, What type of service they want, How they want to pay, Email/Contact number22:32
sahnun__Perfect, I would copy paste that into the Google Doc22:32
Amarwhat is a reservations system?22:33
Amaryeah that would be great.22:33
sahnun__or if that's a formal document, just copying all of it and creating a personal use Planning doc for the actual software. 22:33
AmarI need that for my buisness and my IA would benifit from it 22:33
sahnun__Try to identify the pain points in your current booking system --- are we designing primarily for mobile? Do you want to have a laptop open when booking? That will determine how we allocate our resourcecs.22:34
AmarPrimarily for Webpage access on laptop and the phone 22:35
sahnun__Ok22:35
jelknersvaye and danielC, thanks for coming22:35
jelknerlet's meet here again in two weeks22:35
Amarif thats not possible, then prioritizing phone would most likely be more convineint 22:35
sahnun__Is it currently all one with paper and pen? 22:35
sahnun__done with*22:35
danielCThanks jelkner 22:35
svayethanks jelkner 22:36
AmarJust throuhg my mind and notes app, I collected the reservaotins and contact them and remember it22:36
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sahnun__Ok, so this will make life easier for you for sure :)22:37
sahnun__Keep things organized, you can generate insights about what's profitable, what customers want etc.22:37
sahnun__Dropdowns for all the options.22:38
Amaryep, and potential gain more customers because I am able to promote self easier, and get in contact with others easier. 22:38
sahnun__Radio buttons. Instead of typing it all out.22:38
Amaralong with looking more professional22:38
sahnun__Ahh, good point, absolutely.22:38
AmarRadio buttons?22:38
sahnun__Those are like a little circle that you can click and it fills with a black dot. Usually there are a handful side by side.22:39
sahnun__Like a multiple choice exam but for a website.22:39
sahnun__https://materializecss.com/radio-buttons.html22:39
sahnun__those are radio buttons, except fancy fancy.22:40
Amarahh okay got it, that along with free response ones shoudl be good22:40
sahnun__Yep, these are frontend questions I'm spitballing and getting you excited about the efficiency boost. Having it online is professional, but we want to minimize time-to-book22:41
sahnun__And, we want to reduce the error rate. Maybe include a notification system for you where you get a push notification when a customer has an appointment coming up. Maybe they can use the link to cancel an appointment, too.22:41
Amarthat sounds like a amazin idea, I just have no Idea how to implement that22:42
sahnun__We will get there :)22:43
sahnun__The database so far is two tables, Customer and Booking. Based on the features we want, we'll have to add more or less columns.22:44
Amarokay sounds good22:44
sahnun__If you want to get up and running with Django, this is a good point in the official docs to start: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/intro/tutorial02/22:46
sahnun__it shows you how to use a customized database as opposed to default SQLite (might be fine)22:46
AmarThe Django Documentation? r9ight22:46
sahnun__Yes22:46
sahnun__It also shows you "migrate" which just means "create the tables I defined in my models files"22:46
Amarokay Ill try to get started on it when I have time 22:46
sahnun__A model corresponds to a single table. Let me know if I should add more if this is crossing into territory of too much help!22:47
sahnun__You got this .22:47
jelknergood night all22:47
sahnun__Good night all!22:47
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aryaGood night everyone!22:47
Amarno this is fine, I jsut cant have someone write the 2k word essay written for me 22:47
Amarpretty mcuh22:48
svayeGood night everyone!22:48
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