COVID-19 Symptom Tracker

Inspiration

We were inspired by the following TechTogether workshop: Intro to Python Workshop: Promoting online education and learning through Python with an interactive Women in STEM personality quiz

What it does

It asks the user a series of questions and tracks their responses. It totals the number of symptoms the user responded yes to.

How we built it

We used Visual Studio Code as a text editor and use Python as our coding language. We also searched COVID-19 symptoms on the World Health Organization (WHO) website.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges validating the user input. Originally, we were unable to check whether the user entered "y" for yes, "n" for no or another character. We used an older version of Python, and had to use raw_input() rather than input() to collect user input. This change allowed us to check for valid input ("y" or "n") and ask the user to respond again if their input was invalid.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Using a TechTogether workshop as inpiration and completing a submission for the Hackathon.

What we learned

Review how to write code in Python. A minimum viable product (MVP) can be simple yet powerful. And finding an example helps a lot.

What's next for COVID-19 Symptom Tracker

Using a framework that allows us to run the tracker in the web browser and notifying the user if their symptoms are serious/if they need to seek immediate medical attention.

Built With

• python