Inspiration
As computer science students ourselves we know the extreme challenges of new students trying to learn in the extremely competitive field with subpar teachers who aren't paid enough to care. Therefore, we decided to create an innovative new way for students to learn on their own and take their a path with their interests to gain valuable skills that a traditional education lacks.
What it does
Our website essentially gives a way for students to explore their own interests with a coding language that suits those interests through our tree system. It essentially a path where the student gets to pick what they want to learn next based on their interests and skill level and lets the student feel a sense of independence. Further, each lesson contains an intro to the topic and a task that the students has to complete through their own research of other online resources which instantly confronts the student with the reality of coding: you will have to research in order to create the code that you want.
How we built it
We built our site using some basic HTML and JavaScript with a few enhancements such as a gradient background.
Challenges we ran into
A big challenge we ran into was creating the right amount of lessons and including the right content for beginners, finding this balance took immense research.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being able to put a project of this caliber together relatively quickly with just the three of us and also we are proud of creating the startings of an automatic code checking system that we will update further in the future.
What we learned
We learned quite a lot about designing learning tools and creating a suitable website to house all of the resources we created.
What's next for Capacity
We are looking to add more lessons and add further code checking functionality in future updates of Capacity.
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