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by Maureen Ngugi

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Week 5: June 27 - July 3, 2010

This week was spent writing additional code to my program to get it to insert the question id and bigram id into another table so as to map the bigram with the appropriate question. This will help calculate the highest frequency of words and return the question with the highest count of the bigrams. This also required writing code to ensure bigrams that appeared in more than one question were not repeated but assigned the same bigram id number as the previous occurrence of the word(s).

This leads me to my next step which I didn't get to last week because coding the step above to work right took a while. I finally got it to work later in the week.

So now I'm working on the part that should be more challenging, which is to get the program to get the questions to print out the corresponding answer based on the highest count (frequency) of terms in my database.

I also attended the weekly seminar and participated in two studies this week.

We will be having poster presentations in the coming weeks, so I'm brainstorming on ideas to display on my poster.

This week was pretty low-key. I went to Dr. Hodges dinner, played volleyball and hang out with a couple of the students in the evenings.

Hours worked ~ 40 hours

Week 6: July 4 - July 10, 2010

I completed coding the question to answer match based on highest frequency. Coding this part did not take as long as I expected. I also created a table with test answers to ensure that the query when run in C++ would return the correct answer, which it did. So now I am waiting for my other team members to complete the actual answer table which will have the answers as well as code to get the virtual patients to show expressions and movements.

I am now working on creating classes for my program as I initially had it as one long program. Now comes the time to break it down to provide a logical connection between the data and functions. I haven’t used classes in a while, so this is going to be tricky for me to code.

That sums up my week. We are getting closer to completing the project, which is exciting as soon we will start showcasing our work.

I drove home to Charlotte, NC over the July 4th weekend with a couple of other students that were also going home for the holiday weekend. We drove back to Clemson on Monday evening. It was a fun road trip.

Hours worked ~ 40 hours