Inspiration
One of the students wanted to make a weather tracker while another wanted to make one to find nearby beaches. As an intermediate I recommended writing a program that would find nearby beaches and give the weather of that beach.
What it does
Given a city and state in the US, the program will try to find beaches and the temperature of those beaches.
How we built it
Throughout the period from the 24th to now, the night of the 25th, we have been coding in python on repl.it in order to try and make a (hopefully winning) program.
Challenges we ran into
A major challenge is that the students are sufficient in Java, but they don't really know how to code in python. Therefore, we had to use a lot of documentation and even get some help in order to tie off some loose ends.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Figuring out how to scrape the internet is basically the entire program and we were really proud to figure out how that worked. It took hours, but eventually digging through stack overflow yielded us some very useful documentation
What we learned
Hackathons are so much more stressful than you'd think. Being students whose lives extend past coding, it's quite stressful to have a timer on you all the time, knowing that if the code isn't written you lost an opportunity.
What's next for Location Finder
We still want to implement more factors of the weather into the program: cloudiness, humidity, etc. We could also work on making the location finder work for countries outside of the US, although that would be a significantly hard challenge.
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