Inspiration
We were inspired by how irritating the Microsoft Office Clippy was known to be. We wanted to make a better one, for a purpose that served our needs.
What it does
It uses Microsoft's Q and A API to intelligently address queries to do with Linux. It also creates a virtual CLI to monitor input errors and assist the user with learning the shell.
How we built it
We used a Java for the core of our program and C++ to interface with the CLI. We also used python on an apache server to interface with the API
Challenges we ran into
It was very frustrating, hence the plethora of languages. Almost everything in the project came with a hurdle. We had to make a lot of botchy workarounds to get to make it within 24hr time limit.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Actually finishing a project and
What we learned
We learnt a lot. Not only
What's next for CLIppy – The Command Line Assistant for Ubuntu
We want to make it more intelligent. We only got around to monitoring the CLI input in the past few hours and so we didn't have much time to experiment with that. It would be nice to build upon that.
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