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==Week0 Activities==
===Write problem/project Goal===
To understand what has been done on the attendance project and to integrate facial recognition with attendance spreadsheet.

===My First Task===
Download all facial recognition to to my computer and see the steps the other teams did with them.

==Week1 Activities==
===Summary of actual work over first weekend===
''How is what you did different than what you planned?''

===Week1 Narrative===
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.''

===My Second Task===
''Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the second weekend.''

==Week2 Activities==
===Summary of actual work over second weekend===
Last week, I reviewed what the previous team had done and tried to use some software that they used, such as yawcam. This week, my task was to find out how the barcode attendance works in Math Lab of HCC. Tuesday after class, I went to the math lab and asked a student how the bar code attendance system works, then I also asked a teacher there about the bar code attendance system. Also, in order to know more about barcode attendance system, I googled a lot about it and watched some videos about the system. Basically, I think bar code attendance project would be a very great idea. Not only because it is very easy to get access to, but also it is a very cheap and popular way to use. Nowadays, many high schools in the US are using barcode attendance now. And then I also searched something about bank card attendance (one of my teammates' idea, and I think it's really good), and fingerprint attendance. But I think the Bank card attendance would not be a good idea to work on after searching it online. And the fingerprint attendance project basically is like the barcode attendance. But the difference is some students may think being collected fingerprint will violet their privacy. So, I would think barcode attendance would be a good way to work on since every HCC student has a library ID sticker which is a barcode sticker that stick on the back of student ID.

===Week2 Narrative===
'''1. barcode attendance in HCC math lab.'''
*This Tuesday after class, I went to HCC math lab and investigated how the bar code attendance work. Basically, when students get into the lab, they will need to use the barcode scanner near the door to scan the sticker on the back of their student IDs ( the sticker is from library, students can use it to borrow books from library). Also, I found that when students scan their cards as signing in, the computer will show how many hour they spend in the lab total. In order to know more about this attendance system, I asked a teacher who also work as the computer lab about how this system works and what kind of software HCC use. And he said said this system is based on the one HCC library uses, since they both scan students' library barcode and every student has their own barcode, so the library card will be their ID barcode. And all the names and information are in HCC's database. And when I asked him about what kind of software HCC use for this barcode attendance system, the teacher said it is about school security and he could not tell.

*After visiting HCC math lab, I went online and searched some information about barcode attendance. And found that, there are many high schools and colleges are using barcode attendance system to take attendance in the US. And many teachers say it is easy way to take attendance, also they can pay more attention on their teaching. 

*Before that every student should has their own barcode ID, whick means we need to create barcodes for every student. And then a barcode scanner will be needed, at last, a software to support the whole system will be needed too.
'''Basically, this is how barcode attendance works.'''  

*There are 3 components that make up a Barcode Time and Attendance system. First, barcode readers are used to allow students to make quick and accurate time transactions. Second, data taken from these devices needs to be managed and stored by PC's. Third, management of the time transactions, detailed reports is done by the Time and Attendance software. 
And here is the three parts that make the whole system works.'''Please click to enlarge the image.''' [[File:捕获333.PNG|thumb|1.Data Collection Devices 

2.Data Collection and Storage Computers 3.Barcode Time and Attendance Software]]

'''2.bank card attendance'''
At first, I like the idea of bank card attendance which is really creative. so, I went online and did some research on it.
* First, device. Devices are the most important part of this project. So, I first searched how much the bank card reader will cost. And then I found that the bank card readers are no that cheap. Also, most of those need to be online so that they can recognize the information of the scanned bank cards.

*And then I went to search on how people think about how people think about their bank cards being used in another ways rather than regular use which means going to ATM. And I found that very few people would not care about their bank cards being used in other way. Most people will care about their bank cards being used in another ways, even though it is for taking attendance. The most important thing is by this way, it's easy to copy information from the bank cards and make the other same one. Just like hackers do.

*If people would like use this way to be taken attendance, a lot of paper work will also be needed. Because banks need the permissions from card holders ( each card holder). And that will also need a lot of money to make that. So, bank card attendance would not be a good idea in such time.

'''3. Fingerprint attendance.''' ⏎
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===My Third task===
Since most of the soft wares that for the barcode attendance are not free, I need to find another way to get access to the attendance project. And try to use google drive spread sheet to make it work as a database that storage students' information. So that when they scan their barcode, their attendances will be taken. 
==Week3 Activities==
===Summary of actual work over third weekend===
''How is what you did different than what you planned?''

===Week3 Narrative===
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.''

===My Fourth task===
''Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the final weekend of project work.
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==Week4 Activities==
===Summary of actual work over fourth weekend===
''How is what you did different than what you planned?''

===Week4 Narrative===
''Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.''

===Complete Team Page===
''Fill out the [[General_Engineering_Projects/Team_Done_Form|Team Form]] (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).''