Covid-19 Hack: Happiness Meter

Inspiration

The students who work online during this pandemic share a similar emotion. Their lack of motivation and sadness really urged me to make something we could all relate to and find common ground, despite being in different places.

What it does

Using four specific questions (which sum up what we do during most of our time in isolation), it calculates how happy the individual who's taking the test is.

How I built it

I used python and it's pygame module.

Challenges I ran into

It was just time consuming. It was mostly the visuals which took the longest to make; not the logic behind the testing feature.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I have never coded so many lines in one sitting before, and I'm really proud that I didn't give up despite really wanting to. I hardly ran in to the common syntax errors, and whenever I did, it never took more than a minute to solve the issue. I also didn't use any online aid like I usually do with CS projects.

What I learned

Always assume that there's a couple more hours of work left despite knowing that your program is complete. There are always some hidden bugs or minor logic errors, so I'll be sure to be careful of that from now on.

What's next for Covid-19 Hack: Happiness Meter

I hope that with enough time and effort, this can become a proper way of testing an individual's happiness. Especially during a time when everyone's mental health isn't doing the best. I want this to also have different modes and better visuals (depending on the individual's preference). And of course, a lot more than just 4 questions.