Inspiration
Duck debugging is a common practice to help developers find issues in their code when stuck. However, this process has been stuck in the past. Waddleson - powered by IBM Watson promises to take Duck Debugging out of the stone age and into the future!
What it does
Built with IBM Watson Studio, Waddleson is an interactive chatbot that takes programming related question and gives a technical-sounding response designed to help you get unstuck!
How we built it
Trained with over 8,000 top questions from Stack Overflow, Waddleson uses advanced algorithms to randomly send a response that may help you figure out your issue.
Challenges we ran into
Not thinking of a project idea until we were 12 hours into the hackathon
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Getting Domain.com to actuall work before the deadline Figuring out how to use an API after only 3 hours of it not authenticating
What we learned
Chatbots are hard and don't work well with highly specific messages
What's next for Waddleson
Waddleson is on track to replace all professors by 2522
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