Slide Linter

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  Mockup

Inspiration

As students, we've seen our fair share of bad presentation slides. Too much text, bland colours, abhorrent animations. These are all hallmarks of a slide deck gone wrong. We seek to solve this problem, by giving slide makers a helping hand in the creation process.

What it does

Slide Linter scans your currently selected slide and performs an analysis on its contents. It checks for a variety of different common mistakes such as:

• Title too long
• Too many words on the slide
• Too many animations
• Too many pictures

How we built it

We used Google's App Script environment to build and test the application. We used HTML and Javascript to implement server-side and client-side applications that communicate together over the network to parse slide contents and return a list of rule violations.

Challenges we ran into

• Issues with Google's script editor made it difficult to collaborate on code together and format code

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Working product
• Didn't crash
• We got sleep

What we learned

• Javascript is hard
• What are callbacks?
• Asynchronous execution

What's next for Slide Linter

• More lint rules
• Option to ignore rules for a particular slide or entire presentation
• Automatically running the scan for each slide instead of having to click a button
• Automatically fixing/providing suggestions for lint errors
• Distinction between warnings and errors

Built With

• google-slides
• html5
• javascript