Personal Project Showcase: Circles

Published: Aug. 12, 2021, 3:43 p.m.

b'Ever stared at the UNSW Handbook for hours \\U0001f914 trying to figure out what subjects you need to take? Ever wished that there was a simple and even aesthetic \\u2728 way of planning your degree?\\nThat\\u2019s exactly what Hayes, James and Vincent thought when they decided to create \\u2728Circles\\u2728, the People\\u2019s Choice winner of the 2020 CSESoc Personal Projects Competition! Arsham and Sunny pick their brains on all the ups and downs of developing a winning \\U0001f3c6 webapp, including:\\n\\xa0\\u2705 How to learn a React library that DOESN\\u2019T have any Youtube tutorials or articles, \\U0001f469\\u200d\\U0001f3eb\\xa0\\u2705 What to do when UNSW changes their website completely \\U0001f624 halfway through the project, and\\xa0\\u2705 What motivated them to work on the project every night \\U0001f4aa\\nIf you\\u2019re interested in entering the Personal Projects Competition this year, the competition is still open and ends September 12th! Check out more information and sign up here: https://bit.ly/CSESocPersonalProjects2021\\nThe Circles team mention this article in the podcast: https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/programming-projects-resume/\\nTimestamps\\n01:15 Competition and project overview06:38 Team background11:52 Deciding on the project17:12 Team roles19:49 Language details and relevant UNSW courses21:55 Learning process for project development29:24 Technical development and timeline34:35 Setbacks and roadblocks38:49 Motivation40:29 Future of Circles46:11 "the +1 approach to programming projects"'