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Inner workings of a team

The past week was just a mad rush to get the app up from scratch. Not having the experience in the framework we used made it worse. Each of our team members were tasked to do very different/separate features, and i was tasked with the back-end and eventually bringing them all together. It's definitely not something i've done before - firstly, building something up from scratch, and secondly, having to coordinate with others to piece all the parts together. While not executed perfectly, I'm quite happy that we managed to get things up and running (even though it might still be rather minimal). The SCRUM talk was quite interesting and gave me a fresh perspective towards how a team should work. This workflow seems to tie in very well with agile software development in terms of setting defining specific milestones for releases - building the app up bit by bit and slowly evolving it. While we have tried using scrum in our workflow, i can't say we have gotten very much int

What i hope to learn in CS3216

Firstly, i would like to develop an application that would be beneficial to society. Along the way, i would like to learn the thought processes behind designing such a product – from the underlying code, to considering the UI/UX designs and intentions, and finally down to the marketing side of the product itself. This module strikes me as a wholesome package that gets one considering all fronts of the product itself, and i would like to gain the experience as well as knowledge in these fields.