BadLecturers

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Inspiration

The philosophy of the BadLecturers stems from the tried-and-true Feynman technique, which is a learning method that exposes a student’s weaknesses in knowledge as they attempt to teach the materials they learned. We wanted to create a website that targeted understanding in studying, not just brute force memorization.

What it does

BadLecturers is a platform where any UWaterloo student can upload a "bad lecture" discussing any subject they want. Others can then watch and learn from the lecture, or they can provide constructive criticism in the comments below to help their peers.

How we built it

Our frontend used React.JS and Bootstrap, while our backend was built with Firebase's Firestore and Cloud storage technologies. We also used Waterloo's OpenData API to retrieve course data and to dynamically create course pages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of finishing a month-long project! This was the longest hackathon that any of us have participated in, so we are excited to have come out with a finished product.

We also didn't know anything about firebase coming in, but we learned a lot about the technology and utilized it to its full extent.

What's next for BadLecturers

There is still lots to do for us. We want to implement user profiles, a reputation system to reward "good lecturers," and we want to get the word out about our app! It needs some people to use it before we can get anywhere since it relies on user-generated content.

Built With

• api
• firebase
• node.js
• react