As part of the Coder Academy Hackathon, we decided to build a weather app. This was an idea that won against creating a pomodoro type app that allowed the user to assign timed tasks for the day and a website show-casing student coders.
We felt a weather app would provide more of a learning curve and aswell as allow the consideration and implementation of a greater number of features.
We wanted to create a local Australian app by Australian Developers hence the Dingo. The purpose of this project was to create an app that would present the local weather swiftly and accurately.
This app provides a hassle free, lean weather service with the main content the user wants to view easily.
We chose to create a Weather App using an API so that we would have a steep learning curve and we sure did! From each other, we learnt about technologies such as imovie, pandoc, canvas, bootstrap and tailwind.
From working on the project, team members learnt about:
- Cross-origin policies
- About APIs connected to and working with the app
- Google places and the Google Map API
- Managing API key credentials and restricting access to the key
The barking Dingo logo and the expediant weather stats for Australian cities on the go!
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Github Pages
- Github for version control
- Open Weather API
- Google Maps API
- Cross-origin policies
- Managing API key credentials and restricting access to the key
- Getting bootstrap working
- Sourcing quality weather icons
- Alerts
- Comparisons between multiple locations
- Weekly forecast
- A graph of temperature for the day
- Historical weather look up
You can see additional works by the team by clicking on their names and viewing their personal Github repositories.
- Anthony Reynolds worked as a System Administrator prior to becoming a Software Engineer, which gave him a good understanding of Server-side management.
- Zumin Yu has a degree in Fashion and design backed by strong experience in the fashion and design industry. As she launched her Web Development career, her expereinces have enabled her in creating excellent UI/UX.
- Anthony Chung is a highly skilled Mechanical Engineer with a lifetime of experience within the fashion industry. He takes to designing and building with natural talent and original ideas.
- Hardeep Singh is a sales professional with a background in Biomedical Scienes.
