Week 9

[hk - I would suggest three parts to the final presentation: 1) the overview ; 2) zeroing in on three specific, hands-on problems and solutions; and 3) what's next. Who is your audience?]
This project helps combine the release dates of books from several authors into one spot. This is done through the Amazon API.
One problem I had was parsing the result set returned from Amazon. This was an XML file. Luckily I found some code online that gave me a good base to start from. Another problem was combining multiple search results. I eventually figured out that the best way to do this would be through an array. I eventually implemented this and it has, so far, worked well. The last major problem I had was printing out XML data stored in a string. When the string was printed out, the XML tags wouldn't show up. This took a little while to figure out, but once I did, it was easy to understand what was going on.
The program is definitely still a work in progress. While the main functionality is there, it still needs other features. I am currently trying to implement a database to read authors from. Also I would like to add user accounts so each person could have their own set of authors. Only time constraints will limit how much of this gets done.
The audience for my next presentation will be a sophisticated client. The client will be able to understand some of the code with reasonable explanation, but is not necessarily a programmer themselves.