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DevLog 6-3

  1. Share initial research links in-class and below ✏️

    1. RoomieHunt - allows you to make posts for people at your school to find rooms with openings or to find roommates. https://www.roomiehunt.com/room/university/park-university
    2. Parking Lot management app tutorial w/ Angular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBLpPZXxc2k
    3. Dating app tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QDT776XtO8
    4. Card swipe tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdB-PQY5j-I

  2. Identify potential topics (2-3 sentences) ✏️

    I have two ideas for my final project. The first is a parking app for students at Davidson. The second is an app where people can find roommates at Davidson College. I work with the Residence Life Office closely in my two jobs, so I can talk to them and develop the app to be something that they need, if they are interested. Or, I can meet with them for inspiration on what questions to ask and do it how I want to. My second idea is Tinder for roommates, basically.

  3. 1-2 related articles, with summaries ✏️

    1. https://www.irjet.net/archives/V9/i5/IRJET-V9I565.pdf - research paper that presents techniques for the logic behind the roommate matching app.
    2. Case study of a roommate matching app: https://medium.com/@twitalban/ux-ui-case-study-room-roommate-finder-mobile-application-55691938569e

  4. 3 links with summaries of inspiring / related projects ✏️

    1. This is a good demo of a university hackathon roommate matching website: https://devpost.com/software/bumble-for-roommates
    2. A demo of something called Mate Matching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ZcLqA5QlE and on GitHub: https://github.com/kirkwat/mate-match?tab=readme-ov-file
    3. Trying to find a parking project not made with python or java

  5. Identify new skills or technologies ✏️

    1. React or Angular (I want to learn a little of this because many jobs are asking for it)
    2. Could try using Next.js
    3. One of the tutorials mentions SupaBase for the API
    4. Phonegap, a technology that allows you to build mobile apps with web development skills

  6. Write a summary of your topic(s), research, and technology (3–4 sentences) ✏️

    I found a lot more open-source/student-made roommate matching projects than I did parking projects. I also think that based on what I’ve read about the roommmate finder app logic, I would probably be able to write that much better than I could with the parking lot app, which seems to involve a lot of machine learning algorithms. For both projects, most tutorials teach react or angular.

  7. Share a random potential idea from an idea generator. Personal Portfolio

  8. Share a random potential idea from an idea generator. ✏️ Interactive Quiz

  9. Share a random potential idea from an idea generator. ✏️ AI Fortune Teller

  10. Share (2-3 sentences) concerns you have about the final project ✏️

    My biggest concern is the javascript. It’s not that I can’t figure out the syntax, but that a lot of the time I don’t know which existing objects and things to execute my idea. I’m worried I won’t be able to figure that part of the code out.