Am I doing this right? Lets pretend I am!
So today I realized that I have been a bad person and haven't updated this since I created it. So I will go over what I have been doing over the past two weeks!
The first week I got home (4/15)?
-Worked on my coding skills (so I can be better at hackzoring?). But finished most of codeacademy (If you haven't learned javascript I highly recommend it!
-I started looking over FormMule, which is just an all around awesome program written by Andrew! It takes forms and makes them useful!
-I went over FormMule in detail with David at our chat last week it helped put things in prescriptive
-I also did the basic Apps Script tutorials
This week
-I started writing code!! Not a ton, but I am currently adding functionality to FormMule that will allow people to email HTML charts. This functionality will become the basis for the started attendence program that I will write with David soon!
-I also looked in depth into FormMule reading most of the code (I skipped the creation of calender events).
-I started to experiment with The GUI creator it seems very similar to Java's, however there is enough difference for me to realize that this is going to take a lot of time for me to get it how I want it to look.
Vision for next week
-Next week I am in Italy, so I will not be doing hard coding, however I plant to be reading up on both how to better do HTML and I grabbed a couple books on Apps Script!

Introduction/test

Wow, this is really confusing at first. Really different than anything else I have done before. I guess that this is not really relevant to this summer's project, but it feels awkward to not do some introductions. My name is Sam  , I am A student at Pomona college who plans to double major in CS and Politics.

This Blog will be dedicated to my GSOC project for New Visions for New York Public Schools. This blog will hopefully be able to accurately track my progress, challenges, and plan. I met with both David and Andrew yesterday over G-Hangout, and got a lot better understanding of what I'm doing this summer. As of now I am doing two projects, a warm-up simplified "get to know appscript better project, and a longer more useful project.
The first project is just an attendance script that will take all of the students missing on a certain day and then compiling a list to send to each home room adviser, with multiple data points (past absence/trends) as well as all parent contact information.
The second project is basically talking Twilio and making an Appscript API for it; because google voice doesn't have an appscript API we want to make one using Twilio instead. This is to provide a temporary solution for people who want to be able to call cell phones without having to actually dial. There are currently APIs for Java, Python, Ruby, C#, and a couple other languages for Twilio, but none for appscrpt, this is something that I don't yet know how to do so I am reading up on the way to go about this.

PS: I don't have the formatting thing down yet but I'm learning!
-Sam