# Movie Review Generator

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## 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

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## 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)

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* 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

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## 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

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## Selecting the API's

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### The Movie DB
Lots of info about all kinds of movies, a bit like IMDB
(https://www.themoviedb.org/documentation/api)

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### 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/

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### Honourable mentions
- Guardian news website
- Donald Trump Quotes
- Github
- Cat/animal gifs
- Pub finder
- Corp. jargon
- Eff off

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## Learning takeaways
### Ivo
- Querying APIs (obviously)
- UNIX time
- That I should 'think' in terms of accessibility

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### 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

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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

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### 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)

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### Joe


1. (Kind of) getting callbacks and async
2. Interacting with API documentation

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## 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)

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Code that converted Unix time to UTC:

// 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

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## Takeaways and improvements