Thinker

"Thinker" is a web service that brings you closer to the subject of your choice, study-buddy or one-on-one tutoring sessions by gracefully constructing a comprehesive guidance list based on your likes/dislikes of course/study-buddy profiles.

Team Name

Buzy Beez

Team Members

• Abeve Tayachow (superman)
• Spencer Hood (fox)
• Tanvi Parikh (pickle)

Overview

Drawing inspiration from the popular dating application-"Tinder" we present-Thinker to help you choose your favouite subject or study-buddy by endlessly liking or disliking a course/study-buddy and eventually poring over a compehensive list of online tutorials, books, study-partner profiles and tutors near your area.

Technology

Front-end

• ReactJS
• CSS
• BootStrap
• Photoshop

Back-end

• NodeJS
• ExpressJS

Database

• MongoDB

Hosting

• Heroku

Learning

This project seems to have a mix of all the following learning components- Session management, database management, pattern recognition, ReactJS, Heroku deployment, UI Design and team management. Our porject leans towards a stronger learning curve of - ReactJS, UI and front-end design and functionality implementation.

Responsibilities

Since we are starting off at the same level, we all will be pair-programming and brainstorming over a particular technology or concept. The broad-level classification of tasks will be-

• Spencer: ReactJS front-end, UI design, Bootstrap and CSS, database management
• Abeve: ReactJS front-end, jobscript for pulling tutorials fom Youtube, ExressJS navigation
• Tanvi: ReactJS front-end, database management, algorithm for generating tutoing report, heroku hosting, Photoshop

Milestones

1. Design ReactJS front-end and pull data from pe-existing user & course profiles.
2. Set up MongoDB with youtube tutorials/tutor profiles and set up routes.
3. Ponder and construct the algorrithm that will generate a comprehensive guidance report
4. Extensive and rigorous unit, white-box, black-box, user and system testing. Deployment to Heroku.

Output Screens (for reference)

Home Page:

Sign Up Page:

Studdy-buddy Quiz

Recommendation List:

Q/A (Round-1)

1. WHat are the least amount of features is your product going to contain?
2. What is your business pitch? What are going to offer?
3. Are you going to have user accounts?
4. How much information are you going to reveal about the study-buddy?
5. Is it going to be a usable product?

Features (Round-1)

1. You should be able to choose a study-buddy
2. UI should be slick
3. User accounts should be there.

Q/A (Round-2)

1. Will you be having user-user connections?
2. Can we choose specific topics or courses only?
3. Can someone be benefited with money? Is there going to be a commercial angle?

Features (Round-2)

1. Have cards fo specific topics instead of full-fledged course names.
2. Have a diverse user-base to match study-buddies
3. provide more specific criteria for choosing/rejecting a study-buddy