Week 7

[hk - the project at this point exists on an "A" level. The project subject matter is sound, and the presentations have been consistently detailed and interesting. So the only issue is to keep going. Has a final peer presentation on July 16 and then the final client presentation.]
Last week I thought I had the issue of combining the search results down, but it wasn't really done. What I was doing was creating two separate arrays (with the same name) in different objects. After going back and examining what was wrong I then tried to fix the code. I attempted to combine what appeared to be string results of two searches, but apparently there is some hidden text that does not appear when the string is printed out on the screen. This is a strange issue which I am still trying to figure out how to resolve.

Week 6

I finally got around to combining search results through an array and displayed these results on the screen. I did the searches manually through the code and still need to add database support. I also cleaned up the user interface to accommodate entries in the Amazon API that did not return images.

Week 5

[hk - good presentation yesterday.]
This week I began to tackle the problem of combining searches. To do this I will probably take author entries from a database and run them to get the Amazon API result. I will then append the result to an array and sort that array, instead of having the API sort the results. I am still trying to figure out what to do with the false release dates. Also, I have not dealt with the problem of the page numbers because it might not be a problem once I implement the new way of running searches and sort in the array.

Week 4

Double presentation this coming Tuesday. I got the author search to sort by release date. This sorts the books in order of original release. The sort has brought up a couple of problems. As you go through the search result pages, the books on each page don't change. Also, I have found many errors with the Amazon release category for books, including books that are to be released past the year 3000 [sic!].

Next I must fix these problems with the sort, then figure out how to combine multiple searches into one result set.