AccomplishME

Mid-term Team Project for Skill Distillery

Table of Contents

• Team Members
• Overview
• Description
• Implementation
• Technologies Used
• Lessons Learned

Team Members

• Mason Keeney (Developer, DBA)
• Henry Melendez (Developer, Rep Owner)
• Christopher Brite (Developer, Scrum Master)

Overview

AccomplishMe is a web based application which serves as a journal for tracking various user challenges. Whether they are fitness, diet, or literary based, the goal is to help you accomplish your goals!

Features

• User account registration/editing
• User sessions log-in/out
• User uploaded profile pictures
• Create new challenges or participate in pre-existing challenges
• Create customizable entries and add tasks to daily challenge journal
• Complete or abandon in progress challenges
• Calculate metabolic equivalent of task (MET) for workouts
• Calculate calories consumed for meals
• Track pages read for books
• Create new workouts meals, and books to add to challenges
• Search all active users by first or last name
• Dynamic searching through current workouts, foods, and books

Future Implementations

• Friend/block other users
• Invite friends to challenges
• Comment on personal or friend challenges
• Make challenge logs visible/private
• Filter comments for inappropriate language
• Link with external social media platforms

Implementation

Accomplish Me Database Schema Diagram

jQuery search function allows users to search through challenge detail names or description.

Technologies Used

• Spring MVC
• JPA
• SQL
• HTML
• CSS
• MySQLWorkbench
• Trello
• Figma
• Terminal
• Git
• GitHub
• SpringToolSuite4
• JSP
• JPQL
• Hibernate
• Gradle
• jQuery
• JavaScript

Lessons Learned

• SCOPE! Knowing what can be accomplished in a week and what is the minimum the user needs to be able to do.

• Learned how to navigate issues with lazy initialization in JPA.

• Learned the importance of project management

• Using resources like Trello and FIGMA to collaborate, plan and save hours of time.

• Learned tons about the front end, such as seeing changes in real-time using Google Chrome's inspect feature.

• Learned a lot about how HttpSession can be used to update pages and pull users from session, giving the user immediate feedback.

• Differences in usage between RedirectAttributes and Model