OpusTimization

Inspiration

As students, we use Opus cards every day. During December, the month of exams, buying a combination of passes is sometimes cheaper than a monthly pass.

What it does

Our website lets users enter their travel periods and the number of rides into a calendar. It then generates the optimal combinations of passes to buy for the next 31 days.

How we built it

We coded in Python and used the Tkinter (python interface), VS code, and Thonny.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a few challenges. Firstly, we had trouble deciding if our product would be an app, a website, an extension, or a widget. Since we have no experience with interfaces, we did not know where to start with this aspect. Moreover, generating algorithms for 24-hour, 3-day, consecutive, and weekly passes was extremely hard. After a few tries, we have focused on only 1, 2, 10, and monthly passes. Lastly, we had trouble merging our code altogether.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of our teamwork and cumulative effort in achieving this project. As beginners, we did our best to reach our goals and have fun. With a lot of hours of discussions and coding, we were able to make a good product.

What we learned

We learned to listen to each other and synthesize our ideas together. We also learned the Tkinter calendar and an introduction to interfaces. We have practiced our Python skills and developed our organizational skills.