Zen Gen Calendar

Inspiration

The inspiration for our project was that Zen to us means calmness and readiness and what other way to express these 2 attributes than with a calendar.

What it does

Our calendar displays the day as a Saturday to Sunday format. The calendar will be displayed in month format. Clicking the day in the calendar will display the events/reminders a person has for that day. The user is able to add, edit, or remove an event/reminder. An event will consist of its date, priority level(how important the event is), the title and the description/note. The calendar is for personal use and writes to their own PC.

How we built it

We used C++ and Qt to build the application. We created many ui windows that branch off the Qt interface which allowed us to build an application.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges that we ran into was how to write the program because Qt was fairly new to both of us and we had a lot of problems and wanted to try to implement Qt code. We especially had a hard time doing everything efficiently and left many challenges unsolved.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning qt and finishing a hackathon is a great hackathon we are accomplished for as well as applying everything we learned from UCR to build a quality program.

What we learned

Learning qt and how to use it with relation to C++. qt is a very interesting platform that enabled us to build a calendar that we could use. We made the month view look cool, at least comparatively. A lot about signals and slots and more about algorithms. Never heard of Conway's before this.

What's next for Zen Gen Calendar

More features, More aesthetics, More Motivation, MORE ZEN. But probably more debugging too. Probably just going to fix the bugs and add some pink peach blossoms. We want to overcome those challenges we didn't have the time to overcome during the hackathon.

Built With

• c++
• qt