Talk:WordsCount

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Current revision as of 20:00, 20 November 2006

Brian

After speaking at the meeting about this project I got to thinking that an unambiguous description of the desired results may be as good as a simplified program. Either should be fine so it's your call. I'm going ahead and continue cleaning up what I have as a part of my own learning process. I'll also go forward and write some functions that I think might come in handy whether or not they relate directly to this particular tool or not; also mostly for my own education, but keeping in mind our overall goal.--Miasma 15:00, 20 November 2006 (EST)

Can you get me the document you mentioned making the other day? As I said in IRC later a list of the specific form you expect as outcome should be fine rather than an equivalent to the actual program written in English. However, if you have suggestions to help me in improving my code in example or in English that would be cool too.--Kurt 08:25, 15 November 2006 (EST)

today is Sunday Nov. 12 and I have updated the code at http://forpractice.com/kbsig/psyche/WordsCount/ a couple of times already. Other than what we discussed on the phone I changed the initialization to set everything to operate on a relative path based on the directory the program is run from so we don't need to change a lot of stuff across different systems. Later I'll make it so it installs its required directory structure but for now you need to make sure you have the 'text' directory with the text files to be parsed as well as 'text-count' with its own sub-directory 'totals' already there. I probably won't do any more work on it till tomorrow, but if there are significant changes I'll post them here. The comments need to be updated on many references to the file structure so the code must speak for itself in that regard till I get around to fixing that.

Today is Nov. 11, 2006 and I have posted the code I have to http://forpractice.com/kbsig/psyche/WordsCount/ If there is more than one version the one with the largest version number is the latest until I have a stable version then I'll strip the version # from the name.

It is now Nov. 6, 2006 perhaps we can use this for now, at least until we get something better going. I'd like to eventually use this site and/or GoodNix for related but non-sfvlug activity and projects. But for now we can use it as a temporary place a little more private than the SFVLUG wiki. At some point we will need more security for commercial applications but this should do for now.

What I Need From You

ToDo List

It would be a huge help for me to have some sort of ToDo list of some of the next steps, especially tasks that I can do or quickly learn how to do. I'm reasonably but not completely proficient at Python up to the function and module level. I still have a way to go with Classes. I should have started taking better notes myself, Ironicly, I forget my memory isn't what it once was.

Rough Schedule

I don't need anything fancy or rigid. I can probably wind up the word counting, saving and addition part in real short order, it is there in theory, just a matter of getting it polished to where we need it for the next step(s) You can do that how ever and where ever you want.

Feedback

I probably won't need constant feedback, but if you could at least touch base now and then, even if it is just once every day or so. Even if it is just to let me know you are real busy and I shouldn't bug you for X amount of time it would be a big help for me. I just need enough info to help me manage my own time better. I'll continue to try and get some of our collaborative tools in better shape.

SFVLUG Wiki

Don't forget about this one. You may not have the time to work on anything there yourself but maybe you can encourage others to at least check it out. http://editthis.info/sfvlug/Main_Page