Honours Project: Summary 2015 04 May 4:00 pm Codelight is a web based development environment for HTML, CSS and JavaScript designed for students to share coding knowledge whilst learning. Codelight aims to improve communication between groups of learners either remotely or within a class or workshop by enabling them to collaborate in real time on a single piece of code and request help from others. Users are able to form groups to work together on similar projects and view, suggest improvements and leave fe
Going into fourth year and setting my own brief was a fairly daunting experience. My early concepts were mostly focused around the community and skill sharing. There were quite a few factors which influenced me to finally settle on the concept that would become Codelight. I was introduced to html and php at a relatively young age and would happily spend hours combing through open source applications and trying to build someone functional form the scraps. But many people I speak to view coding as some kind o
During development this year I was able to build on some of the principles I employed during our previous designing social networks module which I picked up from developing themes and plugins for wordpress. After putting together an early ‘proof of concept’ prototype, I made a point of forcing myself to overcome the ‘whatever works’ mindset of just throwing things together as they are needed that often comes with the excitement of a new project and create a structured foundation. Although I wish I’d had thi