atalie's Blog

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    Beginning the remixes project

    By Atalie Holman

    This semester I will be working with Mary to bring remixing to surface on the Looking Glass site. Remixes are a cool way to learn from others by taking a cool action from an existing world and...

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    Tagging

    By Atalie Holman

    This week, Mary and I determined that are next step in bringing remixes to the site would be to add tagging functionality. After discussion of the new home page at last Friday's team meeting, we...

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    Tag clouds and debugging

    By Atalie Holman

    Mary and I had a lot of success last week with pair programming to fix tags and search, but this week our efforts were unfortunately disjoint. (I was out of commission for the first half of the...

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    Tag Clouds for Remixes and other parts of the site!

    By Atalie Holman

    Making functional tag clouds proved to be a larger task than Mary and I anticipated. We've been continuing with it for the past few weeks, and now have accomplished what we set out to...

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    Robust Remixes

    By Atalie Holman

    This week was mostly about testing: planning for user tests at the Science Center, bug fixing, and evaluating the goals we set for remixes. I made a long list of test cases for remix, tag,...

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    User studies and polymorphic remixes

    By Atalie Holman

    The past couple weeks have been focused on user studies at the Science Center and preparing remixes for merging with the main branch. Remixes were switched to a polymorphic model this week...