Inspiration
Many beginners that attempt to learn fitness movements such as calisthenics movements, often don’t know how to progress to it or where to even start. Members of our group certainly did. Which is why we are trying to create an app to solve our problems.
What it does
What our app aims to do is have inbuilt workouts or exercise guides that can help users progress such that they are able to become capable of performing their desired exercise/reaching their goal.
How we built it
In order to build this application, we first learned about using React, Express.js and MongoDB, and ultimately based our application of the MERN stack.
Challenges we ran into
The process of creating this app was difficult as most of us were new to this and did not know how to use react and mongo db, however throughout the first 3 days we managed to learn and create a functioning app. Though due to some difficulty, some of our functionality was hard coded. We also had a bit of trouble deciding how to present as we weren’t sure how to structure it, however we looked at the video as well as googled and eventually found a way to structure our presentation in a way that everyone was happy with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our group are really proud that we got an app running in 4 days given that we had close to zero experience in using react and mongodb.
What we learned
Our group learnt that communication was very important and that we needed to formally designate tasks for everyone and list out what needed to be done so that everyone was clear on what they needed to do. For us, we did this by using a kanban board.
What's next for CompSci Friends
We hope to extend our application further by including features such as AI form detection to help ensure users perform exercises correctly, user-custom-built workouts, as well as including the ability to add friends in order to promote engagement and competitiveness.
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