Inspiration
My teammates and I had little knowledge when coming to Marianopolis for our first semester as students, and thus suffered some unfortunate events. Information about teachers are often very subjective, hard to access, and often, very unorganized and not precise enough. Thus, we would like to make a clutter-free website where all future students of Marianopolis can prepare themselves fully to experience the #MariLyfe!
What it does
MariRated is a website where future students of Marianopolis can browse their future instructors based on their program of study and learn more about their teaching styles through ratings and comments from previous generation students who took the same professor. MariRated proceeds on a very individualistic maneuver, as students often have their own method of learning and we want to make their life the easiest possible through our detailed settings.
How I built it
My team and I built MariRated through a mixture of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We did our backend development through HTML, logical operations through JavaScript, and finally our front end development through CSS.
Challenges I ran into
As my team and I have close to zero experience with webpage design, learning 2 markup languages and a full-sized programming language with many foreign functions and concepts proved to be particularly hard. When considering the 24h time restraint, we often found ourselves stuck at steps involving logical reasoning, notably tables with JavaScript and user input.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We, as a team, are extremely proud to have a functioning and visually pleasing website developed within 24h. We are also very proud to have acquired capabilities in all sorts of programming elements.
What I learned
We learned a lot about HTML and CSS. We went from a bare bones skeleton webpage to a complex frontend page with many css elements. We also learned how to think as programmers through JavaScript as we had to develop logic in order to make our program function.
What's next for MariRated
Right now, we would like to have a complete version of MariRated with all programs taken into consideration and expanding the teacher database
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