Inspiration

  • (Shem) When I was in junior high school, a lot of my peers were unable to read novels, books, or read articles. A lot of students in the status quo are not aware of these things as reading is seen as a hobby. The best way to combat this is through categorization. Categorization allows a student to have a tangible metric or standard. ## What it does
  • It's a GUI that takes readable text files as an input then spits out the appropriate reading level for that given text. ## How we built it
  • For the computational process, we used Python.
  • For file processing, we used sys.
  • For the image, we used Pillow.
  • For the GUI, we used TKinter. ## Challenges we ran into
  • We're unprepared because we only found out about this hackathon, the day before the actual event.

  • This is our first Hackathon. We were honestly very intimidated and were second-guessing if we should even pass anything.

-Our programming experience and knowledge are very limited. Some of us have only programmed for less than half a year.

-We have never used TKinter, OS, sys, or pillow. We are beginner programmers that are still going through the DSA-phase of these languages. We had to search for sample implementations of these libraries and try to understand what certain functions and methods do.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We are proud of having something to show at our first hackathon.

  • We were able to integrate libraries, that we have no experience working with, into our idea.

What we learned

-We learned about the functions and methods we used. It was very cool because I (Shem) always wanted to use something like sys or os since they were pretty much essential to workflow automation at the os-level.

What's next for ColemanLiauIndex-GUI

  • Make the UI visually appealing
  • If issues arise, solve the issues
  • Revise PIL because of system-to-system variance.

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