Week 3: June 13 - June 19, 2010
This week was quite productive. I worked on getting all the applications we have been using to work together, and showed a demonstration to Dr. Hodges.
The demonstration involved speaking out a question and having the answer returned back. So Dragon NaturallySpeaking was the application used to acknowledge the question asked and then the database would be queried to find an answer that corresponds to the question and this answer was returned back by the DI Guy character I created.
Getting all the applications working with each other was a good experience as now I have a better understanding of how they all work hand in hand.
We are now working on the main project. I started working on it Friday and will continue on with it this coming week. I'm looking forward to the end of the project when it's all done and I am able to see the outcome.
I played volleyball this week and it was fun. I got hit a couple of times, but got the hang of it pretty quick. Dr. Hodges dinner was fun, we ate, laughed and all got really full. I also went out to eat with a couple of the other students on a couple of evenings, and had my first taste of Clemson ice cream. They make it on campus and it's really good.
Hours worked ~ 40 hours
Week 4: June 20 - June 26, 2010
I continued working on the main project this week. My part involves reading data to and from the database using MySQL and C++ to programmatically run the queries. The first phase involved importing questions from an excel spreadsheet to the MySQL database.
I then wrote a C++ program to retrieve the questions and break them down into bigrams (set of words).
After this was done, I had to insert the bigrams back into another table in my database based on their primary key using code in another program I wrote.
My next step is to get my program to read in a question and get it to print out the corresponding answer based on the bigrams that has the highest match (frequency) to the question.
The weekly dinner at Dr. Hodges was delicious. Every week, we had a different meal and they were all quite nice. I also went walking around campus with some of the other students. It was quite muggy but a lot cooler since we were walking in the evenings. I also went to a mall over the weekend and did some shopping.
Hours worked ~ 40 hours
Week 1 - 2:
May 30 - June 12, 2010
Week 3 - 4:
June 13 - June 26, 2010
Week 5 - 6:
June 27 - July 10, 2010
Week 7 - 8:
July 11 - July 24, 2010
Week 9 - 10:
July 25 - August 7, 2010