My Check Up

Inspiration

We wanted to make an app that would make it easier to find diagnoses for common diseases and viruses without the user needing to search and click on many links on google which tells them contradictory information. We wanted to put everything in one place, a "one stop shop"

What it does

The user inputs their name and age, then their symptoms and few past interactions which allows the code to get a better understanding of how this disease may have been transmitted and then will tell the user all the possible information they might need to know.

How we built it

There were many apps we could have used, but we chose to use CodeHS because it allows for easy collaboration and we are familiar with the application due to school. We then added our basic commands to gather a few pieces of information from the user before our code analyzed their symptoms entered and provides them with a list of all possible things they may have. We do want to improve on this and offer a top 3 if not top 2 list of diseases in our next iteration of this app.

Challenges we ran into

The starting was very difficult because we had to find an issue in society which we could turn into an app that would make an impact. We also had to narrow down which diseases and viruses to add in our first prototype as we cannot include every possible one.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of creating a medical app that will help society find out what is wrong with their health in just a simple way and give them more information. The faster this information travels, the less pain can be caused for the user.

What we learned

We learned about HashMaps and using different types of mapping to make the code much more simple and keeping data in pairs which could be accessed later on. We also learned lots of small tricks on how to code faster as a lot of this was reusing similar code.

What's next for My Check Up

We plan to make our information much more accurate and adding many more diseases and viruses. We also want to make lots more changes to maybe making this a database, so users can access it whenever and check on their progress, maybe even making a reminder app for medicine.