andreitich / topattendance

Making an attendance app for hackDecode

Bootstrapping the project

1. Install python 3 (on Mac: brew install python3)
2. Clone this repo: git clone [email protected]:AndreiTich/TopAttendance.git.
3. cd into the repo directory.
4. Create a virtual environment for your python dependencies: python3 -m venv .virtualenv
5. Activate the virtual environment (on Mac/Linux: source .virtualenv/bin/activate; on Windows: ./.virtualenv/Scripts/activate.bat)
6. Install the python requirements via pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Deployment

1. Ask Alex :p

Learning resources

Python / Django

• Python 3 reference
• Django tutorial
• An unofficial Django tutorial which may be helpful as well
• Django reference material (Really good documentation if you dig into it!)
• Django DB migrations
• A collection of Django resources

React

• How to use state in React
• How to make new components in React
• React router

CSS

• Materalize

Ideas

Misc. ideas that have been brought up.

• Correlate geoip (Django has a great geoip/GIS feature) with the user-reported GPS lat/long to double check that they agree, to make sure they're not cheating the GPS location.
• Add attendance "sessions": allow the prof to start/stop the attendance window.
• iBeacon transmission from prof to student devices
• Something with having the students taking a photo of themselves so that the prof can go check if a student looks like they're in-class, if they have some reason to be suspicious
• Consider other sensor data that might be interesting from mobile devices

Feel free to experiment!