linkhub VS code_generator_to_boxes_of_medicines

Creating IV: Project. After all the above steps applied to a few subjects, I create a project to practice what I have learned. In programming, just studying will not get us anywhere. Futhermore, I'm studying web development... DEVELOPMENT! So I need to develop something like I did when I created LinkHub to practice some basic HTML and CSS. In this final step, I'm free to chose whatever I want to do!

So I opened Microsoft PowerPoint and made what I called a “lo-fi prototype”, a “sketch” of what I was thinking about this front-end application. After a day of searching, drawing a “lo-fi prototype” in PowerPoint and a “hi-fi prototype” in Figma, I thought it was time to turn this into a web page (or web app, I don’t know the exact difference yet). So I made the HTML structure and basic CSS in a few hours, and yesterday I studied and implemented some animations, meta tags for SEO and some responsiveness, and voilà, LinkHub was born! If you are interested in seeing it, you can access my LinkHub here and the project repo on my GitHub profile.

With no classes and no way to leave the house, I had some time to study whatever I wanted. During the pandemic, Stanford University brought in “Code in Place”, a month-long program with online classes about programming in Python. I was one of the 8,000 people selected, and after 4 weeks of classes, assignments and challenges I was ready to do my final project. I created a simple interface (using the TKinter lib) and a back-end that generates random alphanumeric code. I got the idea after reading about Bright Simons, a Ghanaian programmer/social innovator/writer who suggested integrating random numeric codes into boxes of malaria-treating drugs to prevent counterfeiters. You can see the repo of the project if you like.