WizKid

A platform for software engineers to prepare for the coding interview (First Prize-winner at the Queens College Tech Festival Hackathon in the Education category)

MERN Stack employs cloud-based mongoDB Atlas, Express, React.js, Node.js

Dyamically highlights the current index in a stateful React component while providing error handling with red highlighting and other feedback including WPM and Error count

Live Link

Live Link

Platform projectile game with vanilla JavaScript and CSS keyframe animations

YouTube Demo

Inspiration

We wanted to make a fun game to get kids used to reading and writing code!

What it does

It combines a speed-typing prompt with a platformer-style 2D animation with projectile attacks

How we built it

MERN Google App Engine JavaScript CSS3 HTML5

Challenges we ran into

Mostly my computer getting overheated and webpack getting tired of bundling for me :(

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Proud of making a great game to get kids into coding!

What we learned

We learned how difficult it can be to write python code that makes sense to kids but still compiles into actual code!

What's next for WizKid

More levels and stage design, more prompts and languages, more music. It would be great to build it out into a full game with tutorials and individualized it for users with an avatar and track their metrics to measure their improvement!