Inspiration My inspiration was my experience with voter fatigue and feeling unprepared to vote. Doing my own research on candidates often got boring but I love to online shop, so considered what would happen if I combined the two.
What it does Shop A Candidate is a website that allows potential voters to get information and view an in-debt layout of all officials running in the upcoming election. The website allows users to favorite candidates they're undecided on and add them to their cart when they do decide who they want to vote for. The website then allows for its online shoppers to print out or save their cart to assist them at the voting polls.
How we built it I built it by coding a website's layout via Codepen.
Challenges we ran into I have absolutely no experience coding so learned completely via YouTube, context clues, and the President of ACM, Arturo's help. It's been a very fun and simultaneously stressful experience which I'm glad to be participating in.
Accomplishments that we're proud of I'm proud of my website! It's not perfect but I put my heart into it and have done things beyond what I thought I was capable of in making it.
What we learned I learned coding is all just patterns and really isn't hard. Once you get a blueprint, it all just flows from there.
What's next for Shop A Candidate What's next is perfecting the imperfections and updating he cite to be fully functional!
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