Progress Report

Well, its the Thursday before our demonstration in class and we have a lot of work to do to get where we need to be.  We have four days to get a calendar up and going to add classes to, as well as allowing a user to accept a schedule and obtain the class CRNs.  The calendar is not as clear cut as we thought it would be and we are considering different technologies.  I know, it's way too late to be doing this.  We have been looking at Google Calendar API as well as the Angular UI.  The Google API is rather complex and would require our users to have a Google account to use the application.  The Angular UI is simple, but is hideous.  If we want to have a great UX, then the Angular calendar needs a visual overhaul.  The cool thing about the Google Calendar is that is can send push notifications to the user.  This would be so sweet!!! Also, we can communicate with the API using a REST interface, which is already all set up.  It would be trivial simply sending the API a POST request with the JSON that a user would like to add.  The Google API is what I am leaning towards, but we will see how it goes.