Food for You
Description as a Tweet:
Provide easy food options that meet your nutritional goals
Inspiration:
Proper nutrition is a key pillar to a healthy life. Often reaching nutritional goals of protein, caloric intake, and other factors can be difficult to track. Especially at dining commons with the variety of foods provided, creating a well balanced plate may be overwhelming for some.
What it does:
With Food for You we are able to help people reach nutritional goals by instantly organizing a set of potential meals.
How we built it:
We found a public data set on nutritional facts for different foods. Then we developed an algorithm to match the user's nutritional goals with the correct food.
Technologies we used:
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- SQL
- Python
- Flask
Challenges we ran into:
Cleaning the dataset
Difference in skill levels
Learning backend development
Accomplishments we're proud of:
The program works
Learned a lot about backend and frontend development
Made a team with people we didn't know
Opportunity to further develop the product
What we've learned:
SQL / creating a database
connecting python to html and sql using flask
cleaning a public dataset/debugging across different languages and technologies
What's next:
Store user data and preferences - persistent data
Built with:
atom ide, github, language described above, caffeine,
Prizes we're going for:
- Best Web App
Team Members
Stone Teele
Joseph Daniel Selvaraaj