FoodRecc

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project was so that prospective students could see what the food at Binghamton University is like. After all, should they come to the University, food is important. However, the main focus of this project is the current students so they have an idea of what the food is like at the dining hall today so they can save time and money.

Description

Our project allows the user to rate the food at a dining hall on campus. And then, based on their ratings, an algorithm will recommend a food to them.

Tools

The project was created in vscode using Liveshare. The frontend was developed utilizing HTML and Tailwind. For the backend, our group made use of Python to develop all of the classes.

Challenges We Faced

A challenge we ran into was implementing a dropdown menu for each station in the dining hall. This was something that could not be fully implemented due to time restraints and the need to use Javascript. Also, despite the amount of time we committed, the algorithm could be improved upon.

What Are We Proud Of?

We are proud of the fact that we were able to develop a website that, with more work and debugging, could be something that could help out current/aspiring students.

What Did We Learn?

Throughout this short period of one day, many of the members went beyond the limits of their knowledge and quickly learned new languages, frameworks, etc. Most of us had our first experiences with frontend and backend development using HTML and Python.

Looking Onwards

If we continue working on FoodRecc in the future, we will improve the recommendation algorithm and include the other dining halls on campus rather than just C4. A more ambitious desire is that we would like for FoodRecc to be able to be applied to other Universities and their dining halls.