Flash.io

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Inspiration

While brainstorming, we were trying to identify problems that college students face these days and how to propose a smart solution to answer those problems. A member who studied in art & science at CEGEP told us she always wanted to create a tool to automatically generate flashcards, reducing the time spent making them herself. This is how the idea of Flash.io was born.

What it does

Flash.io essentially scans any piece of text, whether it is uploaded from your computer or copied and pasted into the website, gathers relevant information from it, and then builds flashcards in order for you to have more efficient studying sessions!

How we built it

We used HTML to create the website, as well as JavaScript for certain elements of the code.

To generate questions and answers from affirmative sentences, we utilized the Spacy library in Python for natural language processing purposes.

Challenges we ran into

We weren't fluent in HTML so building a website required some researching and learning moments in order to better understand and come up with the best solution.

We also didn't have the time to learn how to do backend to handle anything related to databases.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to create a website from scratch and implementing our each our own ideas to it is in itself a great accomplishment that we're proud of.

What we learned

We learned how to work as a team and spread out tasks efficiently, and on the more technical side, we gained more experience with HTML!

What's next for Flash.io

From the start, our goal was to implement a summarize function to the website, so that would be a cool project to work on in order to expand the website.