Last week, summer classes started at Oregon State University. I usually don’t take classes during the summer. I like to take time off from school, homework and just re-charge. Since I’m an international student at Oregon State University, in order for me to participate in gsoc, I have to take a minimum of 3 credits during the summer. Since I am a graduate student, the only classes that I can take that count towards my degree are graduate level classes. Unfortunately, during the summer no graduate level classes are offered. I am taking right now a body sculpting class, and a yoga class. I have been wanting to take yoga for quite a while. I’m a workaholic person who is busy all the time either coding, doing hw/study or trying to learn more about programming.
Yoga has been quite interesting. It is taking me a little time to get used to doing all the various poses, but it has been quite relaxing. I have signed up to take more yoga next week. Hopefully it will help me relax a lot more during my crazy school.
Last week, I also work on adding more hints and instructions for the teacher using the timeline course format that I’m working on for gsoc and moodle. I also was working on a bug where sections couldn’t be sorted correctly in the timeline course format. Getting the sorting and moving sections around in the backend was not very troublesome. Getting things to sort and look correctly in the frontend was the tricky part. I spent a lot of time n that. I feel like I’m now more intimate with that js code.
The course format is getting a lot closer to the point were we can set it up in a demo instance of moodle. This would be really helpful since we can gather lots of feedback and testing from the end users. I will also try and see if I can install a demo instance of moodle in my university webspace that all students get. I will also be testing some of the js fixes with other course formats to make sure I’m not breaking functionality.