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Week 2 has ended and the progress of assignment 1 has gone incredibly well. I am amazed at the progress we managed to make just within a week of work. The entire application's architecture has been set up, with a react front end and an expressjs MYSQL backend hosted on AWS's EC2 instance. I was supposed to work on the logic for the matching algorithm for our application, so there wasn't much I needed to do. I hope I can contribute more towards the more business side of the project since everyone is competent in coding & I am a design dummy. Learning points of the week: A bunch of driven experienced coders can produce cool things really quickly. Being in CS3216 where everyone is probably better at coding than me, I should probably leverage on my experience with startups and businesses so that I can provide more value to the team since I realise business people are more scarce here

From 3216, I hope to have a passionate team to develop and deliver value to our target market. I would like to gain a holistic understanding of not just the production of this value, but also the market research (gaining insights, valuing the need, as well as coming up with a marketing offer). For the technical side, I hope to receive guidance to produce industry level code, with adequate version control as well as programmed testing. After which, I would like to see the delivery to the end to package the product nicely with nice UI/UX with follow up surveys or interviews to ensure that we have done a good job. It seems like a lot to do in just a semester, but I will work hard with my future team to achieve as much of the above as possible!

This is my first post woohoo hello 3216 friends!