BlueRate

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project came from our group's combined interest in social justice causes. We come from a campus that has a rich cultural background and awareness of social issues, which made the decision to pursue the project easier.

What it does

It's a rating system inspired by RateMyProfessor that instead allows users to rate their encounters with police officers and leave reviews.

How we built it

We used MySQL as the database backend to store the users, officers, and the reviews made by users. We used Django and Python to quickly setup the website, and HTML, CSS, and Django templates to decorate the website. The website uses no Javascript.

Challenges we ran into

Our team isn't experienced whatsoever in web development, so we ran into a few challenges learning how to use Django and SQL databases.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to learn web development, write a website, and work coherently as a team.

What we learned

We learned how to use the Django framework and how to construct and work with MySQL databases.

What's next for BlueRate

Our search feature is far too basic. We chose it for the lack of a better search function that could be implemented in the short time. Some features we didn't get to that we plan to improve in the future are the user interface, registration, and signing in, and posting reviews. We have a basic code to post reviews, but it is not connected to the SQL database yet, and therefore needs work.

Built With

Submitted to

HackUIowa '19

Created by

I worked on backend with the Django code and frontend with Bootstrap CSS and the HTML pages.

Private user
I created the database used in this project and I almost totally worked in the back. I suggested couple of things for the front end too. I did not have experience working with Django prior to this project and I am proud of myself by the amount of stuff I learned in less than 48 hours. I learned a lot about web development and I built and develop a lot of my soft skills

Hadia Gueye
I worked on the front end with Bootstrap, css and HTML.

Zuhayb
I worked on the backend with the django web framework. It was a learning experience for me; I have never worked on a website before. I had a lot of fun working on this project.

Seb Oeltjen

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Private user started this project — Oct 12, 2019 12:22 PM EDT

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