Inspiration
It is often hard for university students to catch up with their friends due to mismatching class schedules and we aim to address this problem and connect friends together through Skedge.
What it does
Skedge displays your university timetable and also friends that share the same class times as you.
How we built it
We built it using Python and Flask for the back-end, and with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for the front-end.
Challenges we ran into
Being a team mostly consisting of first years, most members had minimal coding experience when it came to both front-end and back-end development. The importing, reading, and displaying of the timetable data so that it would update depending on which class you had in common with others was also a feature that was especially difficult to implement.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of pushing out a finished product.
What we learned
We learned quite a lot from this hackathon; in particular, understanding the process of how a product is created, learning from one another and working together as a team.
What's next for Skedge
Turning it into a usable mobile app, allowing for ease of access and also including additional and easier ways to add your university timetables onto Skedge are all ways we are looking to improve Skedge. We are not only looking to extend Skedge beyond just connecting you with your friends' uni timetables, but also potentially even connecting you to social events such as lunches, club meetings and sporting events which could be further facilitated by adding a group chat function.
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