team3128/attendancescanner

Simple app to scan student ID's and report them to a computer

attendancescanner's Issues

Project Specifications

We need to identify the main requirements our team needs in the app for us to start using it, and then implement a plan for making them happen. Think of like a 'need' vs 'want' list. And then we can start working on it.

Publish Data on Github

It might be a cool idea to publish the dataset on Github. That would make the entire process very open and anyone could check how they got the time that they got.

Github has custom formatting for CSV files that make them easy to read, which would make it fairly user friendly. We could even setup the phones to automatically commit to a Github repository. This would also make it easy to enter in manual time entries.

A few considerations:

• We should probably hash the Student IDs with a one-way hash. MD5 or SHA would equally work fine. We just want to prevent someone from opening up the file and instantly getting a huge list of valid student IDs. It would be fairly trivial for any student to use an online hash generator to enter their student ID and figure out which entity they were.
• We could also include the script that calculates times and statistics in the repository, so anyone could run it and get the same data we do.
• Not sure if we would want to separate everything into separate CSV files, and open lots of them, or make a single huge CSV file. I see benefits for each.

Thoughts? /cc @multiplemonomials @FreezingClouds

Some Barcodes Read Incorrectly

Several Student IDs are read incorrectly and result in much longer numbers. This seems to be an issue with the scanner itself. I'll post examples soon.