Brilliant articles by students in the modern software engineering series (6) We do not actually understand the Internet

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For the first time, we put our own stuff on the internet for other people to use. Today we have a very legend. I decided to tell a long story to commemorate our first release.

Since we could not find the place where the software could be placed, we put the software in the form of a piece in the zol Forum (http://q.zol.com.cn/bbs/thread-5739593-1-1.html), and then all the promotion points to this download link.

Last night, the download volume is about 300 +, the main traffic should be from mf8 (http://bbs.mf8.com.cn/viewthread.php? Tid = 45447 & extra = page % 3D1 ).

At noon today, when I read cnbeta (introduced by xinz, it has become a loyal reader of cb), I found that the shipping did not need to be registered and held the idea that "no one knows if it is ignored by the editors, invested in our software. Soon, the download volume suddenly went from more than 400 to more than 600 in a few minutes. The results showed that the original cnbeta was delivered...

Souvenir

Then, downloads started to go crazy: around, two thousand, five thousand, 10000, and at, and finally, at, I finally captured a figure with a single digit of 0, then the number continues to rise steadily.

It turns out that the comments on cnbeta are hard to extract user feedback, but we leave a mailbox codeangel@163.com as feedback and we begin to receive feedback emails, we believe that the people we provide feedback are all rare users. We carefully reply to each email.

Summarize the feedback received today:

1. Ask about open-source issues and hope to get the source code (2 times, including the first email ...)

2. conflicts with the active defense of the nis2010 anti-virus software will be automatically disabled. (We assure him of the absolute security of the software and will test it. After testing in Win7 + nis2010, we found that there was no problem. As for installing nis2010 in other systems, it was hard to find it around ...)

3. The example does not fully satisfy him. I hope to get another tutorial. (Inform us that we are contacting master cube to write a tutorial. Although the email of the request Master has not received a response ...)

4. The software is unstable. If you play the video in step 4 of the tutorial, an error is reported and you exit. (If you have not received a response for more detailed information, you cannot find the cause)

5. An error occurred while playing the tutorial. This is the last error we want to see, but it still appears... (I asked him about his detailed system configuration and hoped that he could reproduce the error. I learned that I didn't reproduce the error and claimed that my computer was an antique book. We didn't have much confidence in the performance of the software on a general computer, this is already exposed in the testing of Virtual Machine xp, which is prone to various strange bugs ).

6. "I am a programmer and a newbie playing the cube. I thought it would be nice to be open-source. Pure emotional support, and pay attention to each update ". Send an email to add the source code, which is tearful...

7. "How to Learn cube? The demo tutorials you provided are messy when loading them. How can users get the messy cube? How can they learn from the tutorial if they cannot get it? The tutorial is played too fast, cannot keep up with learning ...... ". (I told you how to look at it step by step and explained the basic principles of cube restoration. ----- I personally think that if users do not learn, just rely on instinct to click, a lot of functions will be covered up, including word, excel and other software will also be like this; or our UI is not in place, "Forward" and "backward" should be changed to "previous" and "Next "?)

8. The color block texture of the cube cannot be loaded in 64-bit Windows 7. The tutorial is garbled. (Sorry, we will make improvements later. This is a professional who even directly told us that "you have not provided any way to transfer the tutorial file to UTF ". I guess there will be a problem with coding. during development, I felt that the encoding in MFC was too disgusting and we had no experience... We have not tested the English version of the system, but ensure that there is no bug in Chinese. In this way, it seems that xinz cannot be used anymore ...)

Some feedback on the Forum:

1. There is an adjacent redundant rotation in the Process of disruption. 2. Some message boxes prompt errors. 3. Once failed, I forgot to reproduce the step. (1 is what we know, but we put this priority relatively low and are reluctant to change the code in the cube engine too much. The prompt box is incorrect and you do not know where it is. I don't know the reason for the failure. Of course, there are also many opportunities for failure ....)

2. "I just got a new one in the green league. it's really awkward... The cube looks like a trapezoid, and its eyes are dizzy ." (Trapezoid ?? Didn't he use the right mouse to change the angle of view ?? In the status bar of the interface, we specifically explained the operations currently supported ...)

Google, Baidu, and bing also found some amazing records:

Release experience:

1.We don't actually understand the internet. Although we access the Internet every day, we did not expect a cnbeta to bring such a big change to our release. When I find that I refresh the web page, when downloads increase by more than 10 or dozens, the Internet is really powerful... In less than a few hours, there will be a lot of news we haven't sent, download websites and so on all come out of our stuff, can it really spread so fast?

2. At the beginning of receiving user feedback, I feel "lucky" every time": We are glad that no DirectX has caused most people to be unable to run the software. Fortunately, no cube is totally chaotic. Fortunately, not most people have told us that the software has crashed, fortunately, no one complained that the program was stuck on the machine... The thought of running our software on tens of thousands of machines is like a thin ice. The more downloads, the more tight your mind.

3. As downloads soar, there are also various worries about excitement.We didn't expect there to be so many people at first, so the download link was put in an attachment to a forum. If one day the forum post was missing, then cnbeta, and all download links that have reprinted cnbeta will not expire? We don't have any official web pages. If we want to update them, who knows? Can I only change the attachment in the Forum silently?

Now, users may just turn to the cube to see the Ribbon interface.How many people will understand the Tutorial we want to build? Without a large number of tutorials to keep up with, how do I implement the cube learning function that I first wanted to create?

Our software does not have any self-feedback function, and the released software is like a splash of water. In fact, it is more like a child who is around us every day and suddenly goes to the society by coincidence. He will be very "Tender", of course, we are also very "Tender ", if others see the source code, they will surely feel that we are more "Tender ". But no matter what, you can have a good night's sleep before you know how to proceed.

Finally, we will release the latest downloads of zol Forum attachments.

 

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First talk about downloads:

1. Our biggest download point is also the first online forum in Zhongguancun. All our previous promotions directed the download link to this site (including cnbeta, some forums, posts, csdn, etc.), where the most downloads were gathered.

Time 10-01 21-09. The release time is 1-4, and the end download volume is 34216

Http://q.zol.com.cn/bbs/thread-5739593-1-1.html

For more stories about this download point, see the text here.

2. Download the most professional forum on Rubik's Cube. This is the largest and most professional gathering place for Rubik's Cube players in China. Our post is published here, and soon it will be added to the excellent posts by the moderator. In the next few days, it is always in the front row of "program download version.

As of now, the number of replies/accessors is the last 45/1115

3. Considering program maintenance and the requirements of some program publishing websites for the "Project Homepage", we have added the Google code homepage and download point. All subsequent promotions will be directed to this link.

From to today's 1-15, this download point has 1286 people.

4. Others: including various download websites.

After our software was recommended by cnbeta, many well-known download websites included our software. Before the software is released, Google's "Rubik's Cube Teaching and Research Section" can get about 4000 + results, not related to us. After 11 days, Google can get 10000 + results, the previous n pages are all about our software.

A large number of download websites can be found in the search results. If these download sites use the cnbeta download link, the download volume will be attributed to the above Zhongguancun Forum data. If you create a separate download link, we will not be able to count the downloads.

In terms of downloads, as of now, we can calculate more than 35500. Considering the possibility of multiple downloads on the same machine, we can estimate that the number of users who have used our software is at least 20000 +.

Here is the feedback:

Here, we will focus on the feedback from various aspects, including the software details.

1. website recommendation: After the release of our software, we were recommended by some well-known websites, such as cnbeta, huajun Software Park, and bubble net. If you view the search results in more detail, there should be more discoveries.

2. Print Media: Computer newspaperIn January 11, version 87th G15 recommended our software.

3. user feedback: The collection channels of user evaluation include the replies of various forums, the feedback email (codeangel@163.com) stated in the software.In order to get more practical and authentic feedback, we deliberately avoided using our own private relationship network throughout the promotion process, and uniformly released information and responded to feedback by CodeAngel Team.These feedbacks are objective, authentic, and credible, and do not involve other factors. Of course, we also lost some of the "friends" used. Or, maybe they have downloaded it, or even criticized us?

In user feedback, many of them are praised, many are discussed for improvement, and many are pointed out as problems ,:

For example, Forum replies:

Some feedback Emails:

The feedback is provided here first.

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