HW Help

An straightforward and lightweight way to schedule meetings with your teachers.

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Inspiration

Throughout our years at Harvard-Westlake we have found one issue that continues to persist. Scheduling meetings with teachers, especially in time-sensitive cases, can be extremely monotonous. First off, you have to gather both your teacher's and your own schedule to confusingly compare them, while praying that your teacher does not have a meeting or is seeing another student during that period. The resulting issue is quite vexatious, so during our 36-hour hackathon, we set out to solve this problem, and thus HW Help was born.

What it does

Simply put, this web application allows you to quickly compare schedules with your teachers as well as establish meeting times. We wanted to make it as light and as simple as possible, without sacrificing functionality. This app will help students save time trying to schedule meetings, time they could use for something else, like studying or homework.

How I built it

I built this site using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery.

Challenges I ran into

The main issues I encountered were with interactive features. I hadn't had much experience with building web apps before this, but I enjoyed the challenge!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It was nice to have things completely turn around. Initially, it seemed we were falling behind schedule, but we soon picked up the pace after a few initial bugs were fixed. We soon picked up speed, finished much sooner than expected, leaving time to fine-tune.

What I learned

From coding this site, my web programming skills improved greatly and I picked up many new tools I can now use in the future. This was a great learning experience for the entire HW Help team!

What's next for HW Help

We came out of this hackathon with a fully-functioning prototype that clearly and cleanly executes the intended function. We hope to fully develop this application for widespread use in the future. This includes improving scalability, speed, form, and function to craft a clean, fast, and sleek user experience.

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