HoosOrganizing

Inspiration

I have seen a lot of best students I know make an organized spreadsheet with all of their assignments for the semester at the start of every semester, but I have never been able to find the time. I struggle with organization and focus due to my ADHD, but I love coding so I was motivated to try and create a solution for my problem.

What it does

This is a program that organizes a student's assignment schedule. The student uploads all of the syllabi they want to read, either as pdfs or txt files, and the program outputs the assignments in an excel spreadsheet sorted by date with each subject differentiated by color.

How we built it

Used HTML, Flask, IO, Openpxyl, and Python. One teammate focused on the front end whilst the other did the backend

Challenges we ran into

Biggest challenge was that the program would return a downloadable file, however, it gave a No File Error. After many hours, we were able to overcome this problem. Another significant challenge we faced was that there wasn't enough time to make a very robust searching algorithm, so we just had to make one that was as good as we could in the time we had.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This was both of our first time connecting front end and back end code We made a program that works well enough to showcase what we would want the project to be at completion