# Movie Review Generator  --- ## Planning the project - Followed a different approach and made use of the project board and checkboxes more - Rather than jump into wireframing the project, we added the tasks to the project board, assigned labels and divvied them up into issues. - In doing so, the workflow was much more streamlined this week and everyone had a clear idea of what was going on --- ## Project Management We used the rating methodology and found it useful - it caused us to recalibrate! - E0 Simplest task - E1 Simple exercise - E3 Relatively easy challenge (~1/4 day) - E5 Know how to do but takes some thinking (~1/2 day) - E8 Challenging. May require a technical spike (~1day) ---  --- * Next time we could estimate points we would complete at the beginning and compare that to the actual. * We could also give actual ratings to each issue as well - We focused on building the project board, and assigning ---  --- ## Problems and how we overcame them - Remote working - Scheduled regular stand-ups throughout the day to - Accessibility - Conducted an audit and the code review pointed out some issues with our code. - Navigating the documentation API --- ## Selecting the API's --- ### The Movie DB Lots of info about all kinds of movies, a bit like IMDB (https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api) --- ### pushshift.io => Third party reddit API A tool for searching Reddit Comments and Submissions [](https://pushshift.io/) https://github.com/pushshift/api The docs on the website are not as good as the github readme https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/3zug2y/a_tool_for_searching_reddit_comments_and/ --- ### Honourable mentions - Guardian news website - Donald Trump Quotes - Github - Cat/animal gifs - Pub finder - Corp. jargon - Eff off --- ## Learning takeaways ### Ivo - Querying APIs (obviously) - UNIX time - That I should 'think' in terms of accessibility --- ### Lizzy - Github project boards and automation workflow - Implementing the Fetch request and extracting the data from it - Different approaches to extracting the data, in the pair that I worked in we stored the data we extracted from the API in an object. Then, passed this object to a function for DOM manipulation --- ```javascript= putInTheDom({ title: firstResult.original_title, movie_img: firstResult.poster_path, release_date: firstResult.release_date, synopsis: firstResult.overview ``` - Snippet of code from our fetch request of the data we extracted. - We decided to split up the code for readability --- ### Kat - Understand how to use and implement API's - Better at readinig the API Documentation - Improve comunication skill when explaining code - Feel comfortable with working remote (hangout, VS live share, slack) --- ### Joe  1. (Kind of) getting callbacks and async 2. Interacting with API documentation --- ## Learning Concepts ### Unix Time Unix time is a system for describing a point in time. It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, that is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, minus leap seconds. #### Example: 1583938739 Is equivalent to: 03/11/2020 @ 2:58pm (UTC) --- Code that converted Unix time to UTC: ```javascript= // unixTimeContent == 1583938739 let dateContent = new Date(unixTimeContent * 1000); // dateContent == Wed Mar 11 2020 14:58:59 GMT+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time) dateContent = [dateContent.getDate(), dateContent.getMonth(), dateContent.getFullYear()].join("/"); // now dateContent is in dd/mm/yyyy format ``` --- ## Takeaways and improvements