Inspiration
We were all in one of our most stressful semesters, flying in and out constantly in between school assignments and major cramming for technical interviews. One of the biggest pains was having to carry around heavy books or always have 50 tabs open for practicing our programming skills. What if we had a super simple and straightforward app for easy interview prep? So easy that you could practice your coding skills in line for coffee, waiting for your airplane, or even minutes before you step into that interview room. Thus HacklineBling was born.
(~~Shout-out to Drake for the name inspiration~~)
What it does
HacklineBling will generate a programming question based on your preferences such as "Anything," "Arrays," "LinkedList," etc. Then, the user will type in their pseudocode and/or hardcode into the app. After the she's done, HacklineBling displays the answer next to your own answer, allowing her to easily compare and learn!
How I built it
Retrieved sample questions and answers online Stored them into a hashtable (Java) AndroidStudio to create the front-end of the app
Challenges I ran into
Figuring out how to use the hashtable Translating questions online into Java-friendly format
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Learning how to use AndroidStudio
What I learned
AndroidStudio
What's next for HacklineBling
In the future, HacklineBling will be able to update the user's progress, give suggestions, offer hints and additional complexity questions, and hopefully one day accurately analyze the user's answer.
Possible "Premium" option that offers access to a much larger database of coding questions
Log in or sign up for Devpost to join the conversation.