2018 in Retrospect

The last year, I had quite some progress on my projects. A normal week, I spend two hours on coding, two hours on learning and two hours on blogging.

TrafficControl (C++/Qt):

• I added locks for tracks in order to avoid trains to travel in opposite directions on the same track. I also added red and green circles to visualize the lock status of the tracks.
• Further, I added an icon to the executable 
• The Python script that parses the KML map to a network in TrafficControl was modified: Now, it ignores hidden tracks and the tracks/stations doesn't need to be in any specific folder.
• Improving the model for acceleration of trains
• User Interface Improvements: I added system load and simulated time to the user interface.
• Adding buttons for the controls 
• Adding menus and toolbars
• Adding a Help menu that points to some Help sections on this blog.
• NetworkDesigner is a new tool that helps the user design a network

StockReader (Was: C, now: Python):

• I re-implemented the web scraper in Python. Now, it has only 24 lines of code, including a check of the robots.txt policy.

TravelTimeCalculator (Android/Java):

• Setting up and learning Android Studio
• Sending a Google Direction API request
• Work with databases in SQLite

HouseReader (Python)

• Google Directions Request and JSON responses
• API keys

and some AI book reviews and one movie review

I've also started another blog that will discuss society-related issues.

In 2019, I'll make TravelTimeCalculator demo-able. After that, I'll continue with TrafficControl, adding passenger handling.