Subversion and Pykata

This week I've been focusing on starting to get ready for my senior experience project. First I requested, and was granted, access to the Pykata source code. While looking through it was interesting there was way too much I didn't understand. I was also instructed to learn a bit about svn or subversion, which is how the Pykata code is being stored. I found a very useful tutorial and looked through the beginning of it to just get a basic idea of what subversion is. I learned about how useful its methods of accessing and combining data were and used the checkout command on the Pykata code.
After this I decided to find a different tutorial for the Google App Engine which focuses more on writing and implementing a basic app. The one I've been using previously covered a much wider range of topics, but this new one is much more concise in walking me through a simple program. My goal is to write a new program entirely on my own after finishing this short tutorial. If I'm able to do this I'll feel much more comfortable with the GAE and I'm move further on to implementation and learn how I'm going to be able to make the pykata exercises.