Inspiration
Though my microwave at home has a "Baked Potato" setting, this setting is deviously simple. Most potatoes come out raw or undercooked, leaving me to guess how much time is actually needed to make the perfect microwave baked potato. As a college student, quick and easy meals are important, so finding the correct time as quickly as possible is essential to having a good meal.
What it does
The website provides two entry boxes to see how much a potato weighs and how many of the potatoes are being put into the microwave at once. Then, it calculates how many minutes and seconds are needed to cook the potato in the microwave correctly. These calculations are based on information compiled from various microwave baked potato recipes.
How we built it
The Baked Potato Microwave Time Calculator was built using HTML, built-in CSS, and JavaScript with inspiration from a W3 Schools template. When users enter a value into one of the two text entry boxes, a script is called to make a calculation which returns the correct time in minutes and seconds. Users can change both text entries as needed.
Challenges we ran into
Using JavaScript and text entry together was something I had done in the past but I needed a refresher on how to do it for this website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The website looks clean and is fully functional.
What we learned
I learned how to integrate JavaScript with HTML in a new way, as I previously used the in-text scripts while coding web applications.
What's next for Baked Potato Microwave Time Calculator
It would be great to expand to other baked potato calculation times, like ovens or air fryers.
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