Week 5 - Hackathon

This week was one of the most stressful week ever. All of us needed to at least have a working software to show the judges what we have done so far. Because of this, our group was rushing to finish at least the basic features, and for the parts that we are unable to show, we would just use the wireframe to display our idea on what we will be doing next time.

We had a really hard time coding the programs, with many errors here and there. For example, I had to create a database using PHP myadmin, which is a local host database to test if i was able to store the input from users when they login or sign up. I looked through many different youtube videos and finally managed to make a functional login and signup page. After that, I also managed to create the search page for our website, that allows users to search for the specific food that they like. After creating those two pages, I was really exhausted, but luckily, the school provided us with food and drinks, which was very helpful for students like me that are so tired and needed a quick snack. As for my team members, they also managed to do their allocated tasks, and to be honest, there wasnt much surprise about their contribution. None of us did more or less, only the task that we were allocated to, and this was fair to everyone. Overflow also came up with some games to help us cope with the stress that we are facing, and it was really fun to play the nerf gun game with my team.

Overall, this hackathon was stressful, but it motivated us to accomplish many things in a couple of days. The presentation that we had at the end of the week was indeed not that ideal, and we were given many feedbacks by the judges. However, we are determined to implement those feedbacks into our website, and show them a better version at the end of the semester.