Pandemic Heaven

Pandemic Heaven is a fun website to help get through this pandemic.

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Inspiration

This pandemic has been hard on Americans and it has isolated many people, as the country is reopening we want to provide them the final push, so they will be able to go back to their regular lives more enriched.

What it does

This website is a one-stop-shop for entertainment. If you want to challenge your mind, you can take one of our 5 quizzes that will definitely challenge your mind; if you want to play games you can, we have the state of the art tic tac covid ai using the minimax algorithm which never loses; and finally, if you just want to relax and explore your artistic side you can draw on a note pad with a feature first implemented on this website called rectangle spam and line spam.

How we built it

The front-end was primarily reactjs, we used both typescript and javascript, but typescript was by far the most used, we also used a series of APIs and outside resources like random trivia, weather API, google maps api, Watson API, and Cleverbot API.

Challenges we ran into

This whole project was one big challenge. The memorable ones were setting up the quiz page, it was logic intensive because we had to correctly iterate over a big JSON file, and get the items we needed; another memorable challenge was setting up the minimax algorithm that evaluates which position it should play next by labeling all position a set of numbers ranging from -10 - 10 and picking the highest choice; finally the last memorable challenge that I will be mentioning is researching and setting up the Watson assistant.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're incredibly impressed with how quickly we were able to add so many features and integrate them into the website. Many new technologies have been introduced to us, like Google APIs, Cleverbot API, IBM Watson API, quiz API, and many others. In this short period, we learned how to use them.

What we learned

We learned how to use IBM Watson to render pictures to the user interface and make requests to APIs such as the Google API, Watson API, and others throughout the last three days.

What's next for Pandemic Heaven

we're planning to host this website to the public and adding more fun and amusing features in the future.

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