Tagline
Bringing coders together
Challenge
Description
Hobbyist programming is often a lonesome endeavour since it can be quite hard to find suitable people to work with and learn from. Introducing our solution: a web application that makes it easy to find partners to collaborate with via a matchmaking site designed specifically for programmers.
Technologies used
Ruby with Ruby on Rails, Javascript with JQuery and HTML, CSS and Bootstrap.
Obstacles
- Allowing messages to be sent via a pop-up window as opposed to a separate page was very challenging to do;
- As new developers taking part in our first hackathon, the time pressure was difficult;
- Most of us were new to web development and found learning and using multiple languages in a single application to be a challenge e.g. tasks like sending a post request in a Javascript file to a rails controller which then in turn renders a HTML template.
Accomplishments
- Successfully implemented accounts, conversations, messaging and projects;
- Happy with the look of our main pages;
- Used JQuery to allow conversation windows to pop up and send messages.
Learnings
- Ruby with Ruby on Rails, Javascript with JQuery and HTML, CSS and Bootstrap;
- Web development concepts;
- Developed very good teamwork skills e.g. divvying out tasks;
- Time management.
One-minute video