Completion of week 1

Congratulations on completing week 1. The aim of the first week was to

• Get comfortable with the development environment - Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Subversion
• Write a few programs using C# to be able to read and write to the database
• Install the application to be developed by you'll on your machine and see it running and to go through the code and understand it.
• Setup a blog to record all your learning and what you'll have accomplished.
• Understand the requirements of the project.
• Understand the architecture of the project.

My review of the first week is that the three of you have done very well and have accomplished almost all the goals set out for the first week. We will discuss and understand more about the projects requirement and the architecture in the coming weeks.

I appreciate the ability of the three of you to pick up things very quickly and your interest in learning how new things work. Keep up the keenness and I am sure there will be a lot that you'll can take back after the 8 weeks have been completed.

The target for the next week is for each one of you'll to finish at least 1 simple screen each in the project.