4muLaTex: A web application providing a database with hundreds of physics and maths equations written in LaTeX to enable the scientific community to spend less time typing and more time thinking. Extensive, easily searchable, and open to all, this bank of equations has everything you can think of at the click of a button!
Python, Flask, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Elastic Search Engine.
- Collaborating remotely in different timezones;
- Sanitizing the data to create an extensive database;
- Improving the time it takes to render the website.
We have a working website deployed on Heroku, which provides a database of hundreds of equations and search among them in milliseconds to provide the user with the latex code for the relevant equation on the click of a button. Also, shows the rendering of the equation, includes similar forms of it. Users can search not only by name nut also by tag and categories. We have many more ideas and plan on working on the project further.
To separate the tasks and work in smaller teams, to use Git, how elastic search work and how to deploy an app. Also, that extracting data from other websites and open access books is not that easy as it seemed. How to overcome challenges with software, connection, communication. To be realistic what we can implement in just a weekend. How to use graphical tools, to make a demo and to develop better coding practices in general.