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Autofill Menu
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Option 1: Low Risk
Option 2: High Risk

Previous to this competition, most of this team had worked on another project with a much smaller time frame and a less creative idea. The premise was the idea that students of different skill levels have different skills to share, but none less valuable than the other. Our team stretches across skill levels and specialties, but we all specialize in video game design. Previously we stuck to what we knew and it turned out fairly well, but we wanted to try something that was new to all of us: codename one. We came up with the idea to educate people based on the recent rise in power of the media and the realization that it often skews facts to get its point across. With our application we hope to use accurate and real-time data to give people an idea of the effect COVID-19 has had on any country of their choosing in relative terms in order to give them the ability to properly scale the effect. Along the way, we spent more time researching and learning the syntax for codename one than we spent programming due to ambitions that soared higher than our actual abilities. In the future, however, we all hold faith that we have the ability to further our understanding of codename one to add new methods of displaying data to show people the information that we learned in ways that they can understand it. In our project, we used various codename one layouts to create a reasonably visually appealing menu that packs as much information in each page as possible. Using a manually hardcoded database, an autofill menu is used to increase the ease and usability of the project for its user. The inputted data from the menu is then saved and used as a search parameter for a free api called the "covid19api" that contains the recent and total deaths, recoveries, and confirmed new cases in each of the 186 different countries in the menu. Rather than tell the user a concrete answer, they are given the information directly from the api for them to decide themselves in order to establish a sense of credibility. We all recognize that it's hard to find reliable information that hasn't been skewed in some way, so we found it and displayed it ourselves with our suggestion on what they should take away from it.