Auto Upload to Drive v2

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Proposal

Original Proposal: The original proposal for this application was contained in a private email to [REDACTED], the contents of which cannot be shared here :wink:

Below is my attempt to reproduce the contents of the email:

The Problem

We as students of Informatics Practices are (now) required to maintain "Screenshots" for MySQL outputs & Java programs and source code of our programs in Java... This process of archiving, storing and transmitting is (currently) achieved in the following steps:

Java/NetBeans:

• Create the program in NetBeans
• Finish all the work. Start all over if deleted
• Create a .zip of the Project folder
• Email the .zip to yourself

MySQL:

It goes something like:

• Type the everything in terminal
• Take a screenshot of the terminal window
• Paste the screenshot in a MS Word/Google Doc
• Spend unreasonable amounts of time fixing the layouts and size of the images.
• Saving the file
• Email it to yourself

While this method works, it has the following problems:

• Versioning i.e. keeping track of which .zip is newer or which .zip contains the desired project/program is difficult.
• Redundancy i.e. it is quite possible that you may have two or more copies of the same program.
• Keeping track of the date/CW numbers may be difficult.
• Tedious.
• Boring.
• Believe it or not, email's not the best place to store files.
• School Internet is sloooow. No longer the case 😅