Today was the last day for our reading week and for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Although I didn’t get the chance to see the games but the closing ceremony was great and I really enjoyed all ceremony events. Achieving 25 Medals for Canada was a great job mainly the two golden medals in the hockey game for both men and women.

Anyway, come back to study, the last week I tried to focus on PHP and ASP.NET courses as these are the heavy ones compared with others. Actually most of the time, I spent in developing and enhancing the front end for our PHP project. Leave Management System (LMS), which is the name of our project, It’s very important for any company mainly the human resource department. This web application is for recording, controlling and monitoring all types of employees leaving across any organization. To me, I found that analyzing what type of input and output that each feature of the project should have is more difficult than the coding itself. For this project, we have to play the two roles: the clients and the developers at the same time. As a team of 4 students, we have to come up with all ideas and the requirements for the project before starting the development process.

For ASP.NET project, that one has a different story, as we have to rebuild and existing website of a hospital to be a Content Management System. The website has to have public pages that any visitor can see plus admin pages that only admin users can access in order to change or edit the website; these are the same requirements for the PHP project also. However, for the ASP.NET we have the material, the components, or an example to start from so the task is a little bit easier since we know what is the input and output for each feature because all these features already exist in the current hospital website; we just need to start the development process using ASP.NET.

Finally, there are no more other ideas to share or write in this post, this week will have all the midterm exams and I hope we can do well in all of them.