CCCC: Connecting Countries via Continental Chat

Inspiration

Nobody has done this before. We realised as a team that we come different cultures and so we thought that it would be useful to unite people of different languages together using the internet - akin to theme of DurHack 2022.

What it does

CCCC is a chat-service hosted on the web that allows 2 people to talk to each other, with a built-in translator to ensure both users understand each other.

How we built it

The server-side functionality was built using Python's Flask, the translator using the Google-translator API for Python and the client-side functionality using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Challenges we ran into

Trying to manage network connections across devices, as well as, package managements and keeping an up-to-date version of our code during development.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to accomplish the functionality we intended to - this being communication between 2 users and translating languages between them.

What we learned

We discovered how we can use Python (normally unpopular as a web-dev tool) to create a web-app.

What's next for CCCC: Connecting Countries via Continental Chat

Improved security and a match-up system to bring people with similar interests together.

Built With

Submitted to

DurHack 2021

Created by

I worked on the flask web socket code, the client side and helped with the SQL interface layer and dealing with git version control issues.

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I worked on the database management with SQL integrated in python and helped with the python on back end programing however it was my first time working on back end programming. I also learned the basics of hosting a web server using ngrok.

Dravin Gupta
I came with the program idea and concept itself for the translator chat service. As a psychology student, I wasn't that familiar with the languages of SQL and JavaScript, but I tried my best to learn and help out wherever I could.

Samuel Leung
I worked on developing the database and how it would be manipulated to add and verify users and messages according to the final needs of the program. I had some knowledge of how theoretical databases work, however this was my first time developing a database alongside a web application and one with this degree of functionality, which was challenging. I also did the initial research into using the google translate api and how we might implement into our project.

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