.NET Web Development, Week 12

Meeting Purpose

Finalize and submit Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) for the capstone projects.

Key Takeaways

• Teams spent 30 minutes in breakout rooms finalizing PRDs before group review
• No algorithms session today — replaced by PRD work ahead of tomorrow's new structure
• First lecture of the day was pushed to about 10:00 AM after PRD submission

Meeting Purpose

Demonstrate creating a Git branch and resolving a merge conflict.

Key Takeaways

• Created a feature branch, made a change, and pushed it to the remote repository
• Intentionally created a merge conflict by editing the same line on main
• Walked through GitHub's conflict-resolution tools and strategies for avoiding conflicts

Meeting Purpose

Introduce consuming a web API in .NET MVC, using a DadJoke project as an example.

Key Takeaways

• Made an HTTP client available in the controller via dependency injection
• Deserialized the API's JSON response into a Joke model using JSON property name attributes
• Recommended separate model classes for API data versus custom application data

Meeting Purpose

Have each capstone team pitch their project idea, including a Vibe Check vinyl tracker, a Book Nook reading app, an AI workout app, a course-management app, and an e-commerce site.

Key Takeaways

• Teams presented five distinct project concepts spanning music, books, fitness, education, and e-commerce
• Narciso gave feedback on scope, feasibility, and potential technical challenges for each idea
• Teams submitted their PRDs for review after the pitch session

Meeting Purpose

Discuss the implementation of min heaps and upcoming curriculum changes.

Key Takeaways

• A min heap is a binary tree where every parent is ≤ its children, implemented with one-based array indexing
• Core operations are insert (bubble up), peek, extract min/max, and heapify
• This is the final data-structure topic before the course transitions to LeetCode-style practice

Meeting Purpose

Present a group's implementation of the constructor, peek, insert, and bubble-up methods for a min heap.

Key Takeaways

• Constructor initializes the array with null at the first index for one-based indexing
• Insert pushes the new value to the end of the array, then calls bubble up
• Bubble up swaps a node with its parent until the heap property is restored

Meeting Purpose

Discuss implementation of image-upload functionality in a .NET MVC application using ImageKit.

Key Takeaways

• Built a one-to-one User/Profile relationship with avatar image support
• Used the ImageKit SDK with API keys stored via .NET user secrets
• Created an IImageService interface and ImageKitService implementation, with custom file-type validation

Meeting Purpose

Review and implement min heap algorithms, specifically extract min and heapify.

Key Takeaways

• Extract min removes and returns the root, then moves the last element to the root and bubbles it down
• Heapify builds a min heap from an arbitrary array by bubbling down from the last parent to the root
• Both operations share a common bubble-down helper method

Meeting Purpose

Review team progress across all capstone projects and troubleshoot blockers.

Key Takeaways

• Teams reported progress on Supabase integration, React routing, maps APIs, and book-API integration
• Helped the Infinite Arcade team resolve a .NET 9 authentication issue using the built-in Identity password hasher
• Teams outlined plans for CRUD completion, styling, and API integration for the rest of the day

Meeting Purpose

Showcase final capstone projects from the 12-week software development course.

Key Takeaways

• Seven teams presented full-stack applications: The Book Club, Vibe Check, Swole Buddy, Didactos, Infinite Arcade, Got Home, and Around the Way
• Each project included an independently researched 'Explorer's Badge' feature
• Projects integrated technologies like Supabase, Google Gemini AI, Steam API, Stripe, and Google Maps