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Maria Khutoretsky (mkhutore)
Adam Weis (aweis)

This is our README for the 15-237 HW4 Unit Project

We wanted to make something that was robust, useful and we can be proud of - we think we accomplished our goal.
We always wanted a better way to keep up with our tasks, and we feel we have implemented a project that does this well.
We wanted a nicer interface than what Google Tasks offered, but we still wanted to maintain the portability and ubiquity of using a Google API.

Things we learned:

Maria:
Cygwin on Windows
Git
Google API
JQuery

Adam:
Google API
JQuery

Some of our gripes:

Adam:
The Google Task API.  Apparently this API is in alpha... That is a disgrace to all alpha software that has ever existed.  I was struggling so much to get anything to work, I attended 4 consecutive office hours with Brandon and he recommended I drop Google Task API for "remember the milk API".  I always wanted a better Google Task interface, so I persevered. 
Specifics:
Oauth2.0 was a pain to work with and would only work as a pop-up.
There is no documentation on how to use their request bodies.
Completed tasks that have their state change from ompleted to not completed must have the completed at date field set to null.


I really wanted to have more time to work on the user interface - I really want something that looks closer to http://www.wunderlist.com/

Canvas:
The best use of canvas for this application that we could come up with is just keeping tabs of tasks left to do.

How to run:
you will need a simple HTTP server running in the directory to get around Google API issues.
e.g. python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Commments about the lab:
We each spent about 25 hours on the project.
2 space tabs is better than 4 space