COVID-19 information centre

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  The text-bases interface of our project.

Inspiration

We were inspired by the lack of reliable and up-to-date information on COVID-19, which is becoming a serious problem as the pandemic progresses.

What it does

Our application lets users access information and live data about COVID-19 and how they can keep themselves safe. The text-based interface can be used through a series of simple, one word commands.

How we built it

We built this app over 7 hours using python 3.9, python's requests module, and the COVID 2019 API.

Challenges we ran into

A large challenge we faced was our lack of programming experience. However, we were able to overcome this by taking advantage of online resources to solve problems as they arose. As well, it became difficult collaborating on the python scripts, but were able to understand each other's code by asking each other questions and agreeing on function/variable names.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am personally proud of learning to use the request module to import data, because I had struggled to do this previously. Thankfully, I was able to successfully integrate it into the project, which allowed us to add a live data feature.

What we learned

I learned how to use many features in python, such as dictionaries, API's, and several built-in modules. Overall, this was an amazing learning experience because I gained a better sense of how I can solve problems in programming.

What's next for COVID-19 information centre

Hopefully we'll be able to improve the interface of our application by adding more live data options and potentially creating a GUI using tkinter.

Built With

• covid2019api
• python