Study Buddy

Inspiration ✨

Due to the recent pandemic, learning has become a solitary process. To combat the loneliness of online learning, we've created a multiplayer web app to help you engage socially while learning at the same time.

What it does 🗿

Create your flashcards and race your friends in getting the right answer!

How we built it 🛠

We used a functional programming language called Elm to create the project frontend and Firebase for data persistence & authentication.

Challenges we ran into 🎢

Learning a new language was challenging especially because there aren't a lot of resources available for Elm. Elm also recently came out with a new version that broke a lot of the older APIs so a lot of libraries that we wanted to use for Elm didn't work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of 🎇

Putting together a game completely from scratch using a language that was unknown to us a day ago.

What we learned 📑

That functional languages are not suited for the front end. 😳

What's next for Study Buddy 🎯

Add functionality to the leaderboard, create more variation in questions (for example multiple choice), and how to publish game templates for anyone to use.