Inspiration
We were talking about the news, and we thought to ourselves, "Hey, the news is pretty interesting, and we aren't really good enough at programming to do anything more intense than this, so wouldn't it be cool if be made this program?" And, yeah, that's basically the inspiration.
What it does
This program prints out the top headlines on the New York Times Website, and it also asks the user which article the user wants a summary of. Then, the program will give a summary of the headline that was entered in.
How we built it
We used Python, which is a powerful programming language with lots of capabilities. But the real reason why we picked Python was because we are noobs and don't know any other languages well enough.
Challenges we ran into
It was hard to connect the headlines to the corresponding summaries because the html was super annoying, but with lots of power and endurance, we pushed through the difficulties with ease, like a hot knife through butter.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We actually got the program to work. I'm not going to lie, halfway through the day, we began to lose hope. Hope began to dwindle away like a bonfire in a summer monsoon. However, soon, the sun came out and broke through the clouds. With the great cooperation and teamwork, we worked together to solve the problem and finally finished the program. Sure, we learned how to code, but most importantly, we learned what it meant to be a real friend. <3
What we learned
We learned how to use beautifulsoup, which was a struggle because we had very little experience with it before this hackathon.
What's next for NY Times Quick Read
Be on the lookout for the future of NY Times Quick Read, we're gonna tackle some other insane Python projects in the future, such as rock, paper, scissors. Yeet haw, gamers. <3
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