Project-3 reAsk

General Assembly WDI NYC 60 November, 2016

Our Awesome Team

Synclair Wang
Natty Davis
Mike Cohen
Taka

Description

This application is a web service with live polling aimed at assisting education. The main goal is to have students write down their questions and post them. These questions will be reflected on a public board for that classroom allowing other students to up-vote a question and give it more relevance so the teacher can answer the most pressing matters.

User Story

Questions are used as an anonymous way to get students to open up about their doubts and having other people back them up if they have the same issue. Teachers choose solving those questions based now on relevance and how many students they could affect positively in the process. This helps teachers poll how many people grasp the knowledge they are imparting and can help them change the structure of their future classes based on that information

Wireframes

Technologies used

General Aproach

Using a React based app we will construct a website that uses restful routing to access a PSQL database. The database will be modified by the users that will add questions via their user endpoint. We will provide a temporary system for user login to differentiate between users and teachers.
Questions in general will be anonymous to encourage openness and confidence in students. Students will not view who asked the question or up-voted the poll, but the teachers will be able to see that information. Teachers will have administrator privileges and will also be able to complete a question once he considers it answered. Teachers will also be able to review questions made on previous sessions, providing. In regards to the restful routing process, we will not implement a delete, but instead a soft delete to still have the queries saved for future reference of the teacher or the student that created it. We will be using modals to insert information and

ERDs

Questions	type
ID	SERIAL NOT NULL (primary key)
Timestamp	Current Date NOT NULL, DEFAULT CURRENT DATE
USERID	INTEGER NOT NULL (foreign key)
Votes	INTEGER, DEFAULT 0
QuestionBody	VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
Type (open/closed)	VARCHAR NOT NULL, DEFAULT OPEN
Tags	VARCHAR, DEFAULT ''

Users	Type
ID	SERIAL NOT NULL (primary key)
username	VARCHAR NOT NULL
GA course	VARCHAR NOT NULL
Email	VARCHAR NOT NULL
Password	VARCHAR NOT NULL
-Type (student, teacher, guest)	VARCHAR NOT NULL

Component layout

|_ src
    |_ components
        |_ App
            |_ MainHeader
            |    |_ MainHeader.jsx
            |    |_ MainHeader.css  
            |_ MainBodyContainer
            |    |_ QuestionsContainer
            |    |   |_ Question
            |    |_ WordClodContainer
            |_ Modals
                 |_ ModalBackground
                 |_ AskQuestionModal
                 |_ SignInModal
                 |_ SignUpModal

Major blockers

Getting Socket.io implemented inside of express without knowing how to add front end scripts to page.
Routing for the correct calls
User Authentication in React
Deployment in Heroku

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