Dining Hall Meal Maker

Inspiration

With our shared passion for our college's dining hall food, we decided to create a website that displays the menu in a fun way. With O(n!) options available, we wanted to simplify this process for students and created a fun "Make a Meal" feature that will generate a random meal. We can’t wait to use it for ourselves and friends for when we're together on-campus!

What it does

• Displays the daily menu for Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner at a specific dining hall
• If desired, suggests a meal (which includes one item from each category for the current mealtime)
• Provide serotonin with a picture of Patrick Dempsey

How we built it

• together

• We called the Bowdoin Menu API and stored each of the items in a dictionary that will be used to create a random meal. We used Java, HTML, CSS for a shell website of the bowdoin dining menu.

Challenges we ran into

• figuring out how to access the dining hall menu data
• parsing items from data
• front-end bugs

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• figuring out how to access the dining hall menu data
• finishing on time

What we learned

• UI/UX design can be tough!

What's next for Dining Hall Meal Maker

• increasing functionality + sprucing up the design
• Including the calories and nutrient information for each item

Built With

• api
• collaboration
• css3
• html5
• jamboard
• javascript
• jquery
• stackoverflow
• vscode
• zoom