SDG Task List

A project by Sustainability Squad for HackED Beta 2021.

We wanted to create a simple task list geared towards environmentally friendly tasks, to encourage individual responsibility and awareness about climate change through basic gamification.

Functionality

Current functionalities are:

• Sign-up/log-in system with password hashing
• Functional task list with complete and incomplete buttons that give the user points
• Functionality to delete tasks
• Weather widget display
• Example task display (not finished; intended to generate sample tasks that could be automatically added to the list)

What's next for SDG task list:

• Implementing generation of more environmentally friendly tasks for long-term use.
• To make it more gamified and usable over the long term, we want to make tasks reset over a period of time. We planned out the implementation of this feature but ran out of time.

Accomplishments we're proud of

• Quickly became familiar with Flask (relatively new to all of us), HTML, and CSS (relatively new to most of us).
• Created a working project on a tight timeframe.

Inspiration

We wanted to create a simple task list geared towards environmentally friendly tasks, to encourage individual responsibility and awareness about climate change through basic gamification.

What it does

Current functionalities are:

• Sign-up/log-in system with password hashing
• Functional task list with complete and incomplete buttons that give the user points
• Functionality to delete tasks
• Weather widget display
• Example task display (not finished; intended to generate sample tasks that could be automatically added to the list)
• How we built it
• Used Flask for basic python backend and HTML frontend for efficient time management, brainstormed ideas for functionality, and split up to work on each task.

Challenges we ran into

• Editing databases when there was mismatch of our data structures
• JS file fetching (we're all new to JS which caused an issue with generating quotes)
• Flask was extraordinarily mean to us (also completely new to us)
• Accomplishments that we're proud of
• Quickly became familiar with Flask (relatively new to all of us), HTML, and CSS (relatively new to most of us).
• Created a working project on a tight timeframe.

What we learned

• Web development with Flask, HTML, and CSS
• Working with SQL databases through Flask

What's next for SDG task list

• Implementing generation of more environmentally friendly tasks for long-term use.
• To make it more gamified and usable over the long term, we want to make tasks reset over a period of time. We planned out the implementation of this feature but ran out of time.

Steps to run the program

1. run the following in terminal to install the neeeded packages:

pip3 install flask flask-login flask-sqlalachemy

2. To start the program run:

python3 main.py

Information and background in flask

• init.py is a file that initalizes the web app
• main.py is the file that runs the web app
• routes.py is the file that defines the routes (links to other pages)
• templates folder is where all the html files will be stored
• models.py is where all the database models (schema) will be stored
• auth.py is where all the authentication code will be stored
• hashing function, a fucntion that does not have an inverse for itself (secure)
  • can generate the same y with x, however, cannot go back to x from y