Spring 2023

Fortune Cookie: Software Engineering Project

Fortune Cookie was a semester-wide, full-stack Software Engineer project based on sending and receiving daily fortunes! Users who wanted to use the site were prompted to first log in using Google as a 3rd party authenticator. Users can then navigate to submit a fortune, which they are required to do if they want to receive a fortune. Once a fortune is submitted, its contents get inserted into a database. That same database is used to randomly return another user's submitted fortune to the current user in 'receive a fortune'. As this program limits fortunes to one sent and one received per day, this program can become a fun daily activity for anyone to participate in. Other features included are to view your past fortunes and user profile.

What I Learned

By our instructor's requirement, I had to learn two new languages: Golang and Angular/Typescript. While I primarily worked with Golang, there were more than one instance where I had to read further into Angular. Especially when I set up the HTTP client/server requests to send and receive information between the back-end and front-end. One of Golang's libraries is GORM, which allows you to create and manipulate SQL databases easily. This was my first experience with databases of any kind.

What I Did

I worked in a 4-person team as a back-end software engineer.
I combined the back-end and front-end by setting up HTTP communication between the two sections.
Set up a secure 3rd party (Google) authenticator for logging into the website.
Formed a SQL database using GORM, tested its functionality with various unit tests.
Collaborated closely with my teammates to split work, play on our strengths, and complete the project parts by each deadline.

Honorable Memory

We had 4 checkpoints/sprints throughout the semester to stay on track, each which documented our progress and functions in the Github repository. We made a descriptive and short video presenting our project and what we each worked on. The links for both of these can be found in the spacer above.