BridgeTheGap

https://noah6544.pythonanywhere.com

• This is a simple WebApp I made using Django to introduce users to coding / Python!
  • I believe that the perception or connotation people have with coding is very negative (from past experience). But once you get into it, coding is pretty easy, and especially rewarding!
  • The purpose of this website is to introduce people to coding concepts so that in the future, they may have an open door to coding that was previously closed.
• I made this for my Junior research project
  • From the data collected, users of my website are more confident in their learning, and programming ability!
• This was my very first time ever working with Django, and my second web project ever.
• I prioritized backend functionality and didn't know about good front end design, and I didn't have the time to figure it out. Ignore the horrible design.

Notes

• I programmed the entire website in about a month
• I followed Django tutorial to learn Django then began my own project
• There were LOTS of bugs and issues that I had to spend days on, but this mainly stemmed from inexperience with Django
• Learned a lot about CSS (variables, animations, etc.) and how I need to learn JS soon
• Created a massive excel file to hold all chapter content, questions, important instructions, and how that question's answer is write
  • This was about 4100 words of content made 100% by me and not from the internet's sources (however I did look to see what other python tutorials ordered each topic in).

Known Bugs

• When pressing "next chapter" will result in a "Chapter DNE" error
  • This stems from my lack of Django experience and especially lack of understanding primary keys
  • This may be fixed soon

Features to add

• An ability to reorder the objects of primary keys / reorder chapters so that the order of website content can be changed
  • This ability furthermore would hopefully be able to be done graphically in some sort of GUI in the admin panel. However, a simple list storing the order of chapters might suffice within the views.py file.

Misc. Notes

• Lines of code : 2000+
• Words of content: 4100+
• Estimated hours spent: 70+
• Website design: 2/10
• All-nighters: 1
• Happiness: a lot :)

Personal Thoughts

• although simple, I took a big step with Django in learning this project. It was awesome for me to slowly see my thinking change as I slowly understood the flow of Django, how all the url files went with the views and how the template language worked.

Thanks for checking out my project! Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or if you want to contribute! I plan to keep this website up using pythonanywhere for a long time!