Global Voices

Inspiration

It was our group member Alejandro's idea after he talked about how under prepared he felt before coming to the UK due to a lack of resources that talk about the study abroad specific experience.

What it does

Our app can be used as a tool by prospective exchange students to allow them to see what life will be like, it allows students that study abroad to speak on their experience and encourages people to see views outside of the country they live in.

How we built it

We wanted to try out django web development as we thought it was what github pages use but we where thinking of Jekyll but django still turned out to be fun. We used iterative development to expand our program, from just a map, to a homepage, profile creation, and profile viewing.

Challenges we ran into

None of us had done much backend before so getting our webpages to link together caused lots of null value errors, and it was our first times using git at a fast pace, so we had several large git merges that where tricky to navigate.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Fully interactive map, which you can add markers to with the flag of the country you are from, using an ISO 3166-1 to country name converter. Also, having a fully flushed out Django file directory with working database and frontend, plus meeting all the goals of our scope we set out at the start.

What we learned

We now all have a good understanding of the entire overview of a website, but specifically we got to practice our html skills, and learn a new python web development framework while also having to delegate and communicate our work.