Sign Language Course and Translator

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  This is the homepage of the website

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  This is the page where you pick a certain topic to learn about

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  This is the translator where you can type in sentences or phrases and get a visual output as to how to do the sentence or phrase.

I was primarily inspired by Duolingo and it's language learning courses and how they make learning easier.

This website has a small course that teaches the user certain aspects of sign language like greeting or how to ask certain questions. It also comes with a translator that you can use to translate your text to sign language.

I built the website using the IDE's Visual studio code, and Apache Netbeans, over the span of a few months. The code is primarily written in html and javascript but contains a lot of self created images all drawn with Adobe Animate and Photoshop.

The main challenge we ran into was figuring out how to get the translating feature to work correctly, I did it by creating a set algorithm of specific phrases for the program to look out for first and compare the user phrases to the data ignoring things like numbers and punctuation marks, then if no matches are found, the website then breaks down every word into letters and translate those individually

I'm proud of the fact that I was able to push and expend my programming skills having built a whole translator and multiple connected webpages after using html for the first time in 2 and a half years and just learning javascript for the first time in years

Working on this project has given me some insight on the process behind making websites and writing their code. I've never worked on a project of this scale before and I am happy that I found the oppurtunity to learn some new programming languages that I wasn't too familiar with at the start and use my new knowledge of these 2 languages to make something I'm truly proud of.

I plan to make the sign language translator more advanced so the code recognizes more phrases, and improve the actual course part of the project with more sign language lessons, and maybe some practice quizzes to test the user

Built With

• adobe
• html
• javascript
• netbeans
• vsc