About My Project

Hi! My name is Reed and I’m a senior at Emma Willard School. I’m passionate about history, community organizing, politics, debate, and journalism.

Over the last few years, I’ve had a number of conversations with people who have good ideas about how to improve their…

Database

In order for the app to work, it needs to be able to get the right information to the user when the user calls it. To do this, I need a database with all of the information that I want the app to be able to access. I started with the information for the local leaders pages, since the information needed for…

Moving the database onto the website

I started moving some of the database information onto the website I created. All of the information I included exists in some form on the internet, but the idea behind this portion of the site/app is that all of your different representatives and leaders will be…

Planning

The first part of designing an app is planning out what the content of the app will be. I created a word document with all of the pages that I want to be part of my app. This is turning out to be surprisingly difficult and time consuming. I had thought that I would just write out the idea of each page and make…

Timeline of project:

End of November— finish wireframe, database

October through December — work through coding process with Coco

March — have usable app

March through May — test and refine app in Troy