Inspiration
Both members of our team have experience learning Spanish and wanted to try to create a tool that would make learning words easier.
What it does
Allows the user to look up words without having to navigate away from the article they are reading on chrome.
How we built it
We used visual studio code along with git to work collaboratively. Both of us were familiar with html, js and css, but had no experience using these languages to write a chrome extension. We referenced the chrome developer website and read through a lot of the documentation for how to implement project. We also used large language models such as chat gpt and gemini to review and alter our code.
Challenges we ran into
We tried to implement Gemini into our project and faced issues with setting up a backend. Ultimately, we changed our API to an open-source dictionary API to allow us to quickly lookup the definitions.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We think that we were able to create a tool that is easy and intuitive to use in a short time frame.
What we learned
We learned about the basics of making a chrome extension and making API requests.
What's next for Dictionary Popup
We would like to be able to use Gemini to allow the user to generate example sentences and flash cards for the words that they are learning. We would also like to use Gemini to allow for the user to select a language.
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