Weekly Status Report #8

This week we started to work on a Pizza Order form application in partners. The project is due on Thursday due to Easter holidays. On this Pizza Palace order form, we had to create a program that would allow the user to choose between a small, medium and large pizza and a pepperoni, mushroom, veggie or Hawaiian pizza. The user is also allowed to make their own pizza, choosing from a choice of top pins (pepperoni, mushroom, onion, extra cheese, olive and pineapple). The user can also choose to order bread sticks and wings, and also soft drinks, orange juice and water. All of these would be calculated to a total amount. An additional feature to this program would be the option to change prices of the pizzas, toppings, sides and drinks.

My partner and I finished the program in the allotted time frame and we spent time debugging the program, however we did not hand it in so that we could have more time on tuesday to make sure the program is perfect. This program was our first complex program that was a project so we found that there was a lot of code that went into it. We split the work evenly; I created the design of the window and wrote half the code, and my partner wrote the other half of the code and wrote all of the comments and together we debugged the program. We found that brainstorming our plan before we started helped us with our efficiency, not only because we worked well together, but because we could write the program fluently because we had a plan already made.

With this project my partner and I ran into a few problems, luckily, these problems were very easy to debug and the program is working properly. This week I learned about the length that real programs' codes can have. Even though the program that we have created isn't nearly as complex as professional programs, I believe that this is the best program I have made all year. I hope that in the future, I will be able to create harder programs.