UMD Eats

Inspiration

As UMD students we recognized the poor accessibility on the UMD app on updated meals offered at the dining halls on a daily basis. Our team and I decided to use this hackathon as an opportunity to begin a project that will help update the UMD App in a more efficient manner and alert UMD students when and where their favorite meals will be offered.

What it does

Though our app does not include full functionality, it presents the meals offered at the Yahentamitsi on a specific day. This data can be used by the user to determine meals offered at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

How we built it

Our team used VSCode to collaborate our code and implement it. We used the LiveShare feature to share code and used languages such as HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, BeautifulSoup, Node.js, and more.

Challenges we ran into

Several challenges we ran into was the lack of experience with web scraping as well as web-development. After watching tutorials, using HTML templates, and receiving help from mentors we were able to outline our project and begin coding.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are extremely happy we got this opportunity to learn more about web development and web scraping as it is skills we will definitely be using in the future.

What we learned

We learned how to trouble shoot our code and debug our design. We also gained exposure to new coding IDEs, languages, and skills. We learned how to collaborate inside a team and work with one another with assigning tasks and updates.