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NeuroHub
Inspiration
NeuroHub was inspired by our own experiences as neurodivergent Uni students studying online. It started with a conversation about the difficulties we found in scheduling our classes and the overwhelming amount of planners on offer. Students with neurodivergencies such as ADHD and Autism rely heavily on structure and routine which is often not available in online learning. This platform allows students to visualise their work and classes which assists in motivation and memory to complete these activities.
What it does
NeuroHub is an all in one scheduling site to help all students keep track of Lectures, assigments, and tasks in a clear and non-distracting manner. One site includes a main schedule for the day; a to do list for easy addition of tasks; and a quick link to a simple calendar to input repeating or one-time events.
How we built it
The page is coded with a mix of HTML/CSS and Javascript which allows the forms to be processed. The general skeleton of the page was coded in HTML and CSS allowed us to make it more ergonomic, to reduce overstimulation due to colours for neurodivergent people. Javascript is used to process the data entered into the forms and converses with the HTML to display the output.
Challenges we ran into
We encountered difficulties in storing the data that was entered into the HTML forms as PHP functions were not working on our platform, Atom, and we had limited knowledge in Java. We combatted this challenge by essentially learning Javascript during these short hours which allowed us to create the mail form page which displays daily classes and a calendar page which stores data about upcoming classes.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
As a two person team with limited experience in coding with HTML and Java, we are proud to present this project which we worked very hard on over the weekend. We feel accomplished to tackle an issue which is prevalent in our lives and which has previously been somewhat ignored. We believe that Neurohub has lots of potential and with some more work it would be a resource that both of us would be grateful to have.
What we learned
From trying to code a website in two days we not only learnt a lot about coding in css and javascript, but also how to work as a team expecially online through github.
What's next for NeuroHub
We really belive in NeuroHub's concept and plan to continue improving upon what we have built so far. Our next step would be displaying a calender on our calender page for added events and keep simplifying our main page.
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