Developing the App
Survey Time!
So, since we had to kinda rethink our whole idea, we were back at square one, trying to think of what we could do to
provide the best educational experience we could. Being students ourselves, we have a pretty good idea of what we find
to be engaging learning opportunities, but of course, if no one is interested in the first place, there’s no need for a
solution. As such, we developed a survey, which a wide assortment of questions, gathering data on who our target
audience is, if they’d be interested in our solution at all, and what the best way would be to implement said solution.
The survey was a big success, and we had many responses.
The main takeaway from the answers was that there’s a pretty large audience who would be interested in the workshops we intend to offer.
Designing the App:
We’ve been a bit more stagnant in terms of progress due to the lockdown and COVID, but I hope to make some good progress on the app over the holidays.
It’s a bit annoying that the lockdown’s going on for so long, since from experience, I can tell you that learning opportunities like this are a lot less fun when they’re remote.
To try to avoid this, we’re trying to prepare as many learning resources as we can in the time we have, and one of these includes the app.
As previously described, the app will just fetch current crypto prices, and allow you to virtually exchange ur balance for these cryptos, giving students a bit of experience with trading while not spending any money.
So far, I’ve found a promising looking API, which can be found here. All of the information for the prices is free and public, which can just be accessed as a JSON file as such.
Over the holiday’s (which are running right now), I’ll hopefully get a good start on the app!