Day 27

Secret Santa App

My group decided that our Python project is going to be a secret santa app. We learned about the AGILE system of development. Basically, have an overarching goal of what the end product is and divide into parts the different pieces of the project and its features and slowly implement and increment towards the goal. Eric has been a PM at Microsoft for the past 8 years so he was really well versed in AGILE and taught me and Brian on how to approach it.

We decided to do this app because of the holiday theme and also it kinda is something that we've done before. There will be a login/registration page with an OAuthr2 that will route to a dashboard page that will have the user's wish list and their friends' wish list in another table. You can add an item and also add an item on your friends wish list to your wish list. Now, when you add an item, it's not just a simple input form for the user to fill out but we'll use the Amazon Simple Product API that will give us a search bar that after inputting your item, will populate the top 5 most popular items and display them. From there, the user can then add that item to their wish list.

The last part of the app is to embed a clock that after it reaches a certain time, will generate a secret santa for all the users that are currently in the Django DB API. We divided our project and got to work and by the end of the day we got the Amazon API working as well as all the routes, databases and templates.