The 'Menus' page.
From clicking on Monday's Breakfast option at BMH, we can see the page that shows the ratings and dietary allowances for the dish.
Scrolling down on the 'Menus' page, you can find the weekly menu for Douglas Hall.
The 'About' page, with clickable links for each of the creators.
The main 'Dishes' page.
Searching for rice, filtering by descending rating.
All MSC options.
When you filter for only gluten free and vegan options.
Individual page for 'pickled carrots and sauteed bok choy'.

Campus Critics

Inspiration

As three first-year students, we find ourselves eating at McGill's dining halls frequently and sometimes the experience can be... surprising. We wanted to create a website for other students who frequent the dining halls to be able to not only see the weekly menu at each of McGill's 5 dining hall locations, but also see cumulative ratings of the meals compiled from other student input over time.

We created a full-stack application that calls an API to reference the data we organized in the backend to be used in the front end. First we pursed the weekly menu PDFs for the dining halls to create our data base. Then, we used APIs to integrate ratings into the dishes in the menu. And finally, we created a website to display the information.

Our Website

The Campus Critics is available here: Campus Critics.

And the Github page for this project here: Github

Our menu has three pages. The Menu page is for viewing the weekly menu at each of McGill's 5 dining hall locations. The Dishes page shows all dishes available at all of the dining halls for a given week and allows users to search by rating, name and dietary allowances. And the About page that links to each of the creators on this project.

The most helpful tools used when developing this website were magic, witchcraft, and alchemy. Banging heads on keyboards was also useful.

Things Learned & Challenges Faced

Over the course of this project, we learned a lot both about PDF pursing and web-development, and also about how to have multiple people collaborating on one project. We found a good balance between splitting up work and working together that will be very valuable when collaborating with others in the future.

We found some obstacles in PDF pursing and analyzing the data from it, as the PDFs often read inconsistently. Most of our obstacles were in web-development; there were many tedious errors and alterations that we had to fix and adjust when refining the website.

Possible Improvements

There is so much to expand upon with Campus Critics!! We can breakdown the ratings to certain specific qualities or even allow for user input to account for unexpected dishes that may show up at the dining halls.

We hope to see you next year at McHacks 11!!

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