Julia Bays and Gabby Snyder, University of Dayton

Welcome to our site for Capstone I & II, F22 - S23. Here you can find our messenger app from Capstone I, and see what we are working on for our Capstone II project, the Society of Women Journalists (SWJ) site.

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Society of Women Journalists (SWJ)

Project Overview

The Society of Women Journalists site, by Dr. Laura Vorachek, aims to. . .

- Show the identities of women working as journalists at the turn of the 20th century

- Map networks of social and professional support among female journalists

- Recover a detailed history of the early years of the SWJ

- Centralize SWJ membership lists and make them more widely accessible

Sprint 0

Plan sprints, create and organize repo...

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Sprint 1

- Get familiar with the code

- Get the site up and running

- Fix data errors

- Design a new database schema

Presentation
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Sprint 2

- Update contributors page

- Clean and reformat all data

- Decide on new DB schema

- Write a python script to enter data

- Repopulate database

Presentation
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Sprint 3 Original Plans

- Set up staging

- Connect the database

- Edit admin and main site functionality

- Update the export function

- Write a guide for the next group

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SWJ 2.0: Coming Soon

Redesign of SWJ site using Django

Why?

- Current source code is difficult to work with and hard to modify

- We spent 7 hours with Dr. Stiffler trying to edit static code that was hard coded

- After all this time with Dr. Stiffler, we still couldn't set up a staging environment

- Trying to implement any further functionality would have likely taken much longer than expected

- Django framework is much more suitable to Dr. Vorachek's wants and needs for this site

- All CIS majors are required to take a class taught by Dr. Stiffler that uses Django, meaning not only

will Dr. Stiffler be able to help with this project in the future, but all CIS seniors will

also be familiar with the framework

Presentation






Messenger App

Project Overview

Messenger Application for General, Private, & Group Chats

- Login/Register for our messenger app

- Create your own profile and change themes in the settings tab

- Try out our emojis feature inside our chat box

- Security features implemented for safe chatting online

- Below is a link to our Messenger Application

Messenger

About Us

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Julia Bays

Senior Computer Science Major

Returning to UD in the Fall to work towards a Masters Degree

















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Gabby Snyder

Senior Computer Science Major

Starting this summer as a Software Developer at Freddie Mac

















Meet Our Sponsors

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Dr. Laura Vorachek

Professor of English and Director of Faculty Formation at the University of Dayton

"Regularly teaches courses on Victorian literature, Jane Austen, the Brontës, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century detective fiction and composition.

"Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, nineteenth-century periodicals, and women journalists (having briefly been one herself).

"Currently working on a history of the first two decades of the Society of Women Journalists." (UD directory)

Dr. Vorachek owns the SWJ site.

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Dr. Nick Stiffler

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of Dayton

"Before joining UD, Dr. Stiffler was a Postdoctoral Researcher for the College of Engineering and Computing at the University of South Carolina.

"Dr. Stiffler's interests span algorithmic robotics and related areas, including computational geometry, multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, sensor networks and motion planning.

"Dr. Stiffler's research is in the design and implementation of planners for a variety of complex robotic planning problems that pose inherent computational challenges." (UD Directory)

Dr. Stiffler teaches our Capstone I and Capstone II courses.

contact info





Emails

baysj1@udayton.edu

snyderg3@udayton.edu