Sleuth Finder

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Inspiration

We want students to be able to both socialize and study for their course

What it does

It lets students find study groups for each course and let's them join or create their own

How we built it

We used a 'fern' stack - Firebase, express.js, Reactjs, Node.js - and material ui to make it look pretty

Challenges we ran into

I was using the free version of firebase and ran out of my monthly quotta!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

My team consisted of one computer science, accounting, and civil major. It was very diverse, and while the majority didn't have experience with anything that we did, we all learned so much and created a working mvp despite it all.

We found a get request on fox's course website that return php code for all the courses they have and through that we created a parser that just grabs a nice object array of classes. Also the mockups were made so well by Nicolle.

What we learned

Objects are capitalized
Functions are not (but they are)
You don’t have to use semicolons
You need to understand the basics of the languages before joining a code jam
Coding is hard
Make sure you are paying for your database
Sleep is important
Showers may be more important
Coffee is gud

What's next for Sleuth Finder

Well if everything were to work out well, we'd want to expand the functionality of the groups page, give an email alert for meetings and events for users, user accounts, chat, and have a working when2meet for all groups.