Hack Away The Boredom

Have fun while being productive!

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Inspiration and About Me

I am a rising High School Junior who is interested in Computer Science. My passion towards CS/programming has helped me self-learn many technologies including the ones used for this Hackathon project. I have worked individually on this project and wanted to get a simple, yet effective interface to make the COVID-19 downtime a more fun and productive time.

What it does

The onset of COVID-19 has forced school aged children to stay at home and maintain social distancing. This has also opened up unlimited screen time for these kids who are now free to play online games.

The goal of this hack is to create a reward-based game/to-do list system that parents/kids can maintain and manage the online gaming time for kids.

This hack aims at instilling discipline and responsibility while making it fun to do the assigned tasks.

I have also included a list of tasks that can be completed for fun during the pandemic. The website has the following features:

1.  Interesting ideas to have fun during this downtime
2.  To do list to display tasks to be completed
3.  Interactive game as a reward

How I built it

I used HTML/CSS/JavaScript for the website. As I finalized my idea, I designed the website, various pages, coded the functionality, and validated a few scenarios with game rules and the to-do list.

Challenges I ran into

I had some challenges with JavaScript and debugging my code given that I was working alone with a time crunch. However, I was able to figure it all out!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of the design for the website that I came up with after experimenting for a bit with various styles. I am also glad I was able to bring some functionality to the website. I was able to gain more experience in front-end development.

What I learned

It was fun developing the website. I learned a lot of the CSS functionalities and the flexibility of HTML/CSS/JavaScript in bringing ideas to life. This project has given me various ideas including expanding the capabilities and also possibility of migrating it onto a mobile app

What's next for Hack Away The Boredom

The functionality of this website can be extended further by adding more interactive games, assigning a time limit or a count limit on the number of times a game can be played, and asking the kid to complete more to-do items to earn game time. The functionality can also be further improved by integrating a database and by displaying charts on the time spent on playing, etc.

Contact

Please reach me at diyadinesh19@gmail.com if you have any questions

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