GotchiTracker

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  Home page for the fitness tracker web app.

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  Gotchi character web page displaying gotchi and various metrics.

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  Tracker page to show and track workouts

Inspiration

The inspiration for this project, given tracks to follow and theming, was a motivational boost to self sufficiency and to promote positive mental health. Exercising has numerous effects on the human cognitive functions, so promoting this is most certainly beneficial by means of gamifying workouts. Direct inspiration comes from Tamagotchi toy of the 90s.

What it does

Represents an avatar of yourself that you interact with through exercising and keeping track of personal fitness.

How we built it

Brainstormed mental health, set up a shared document to put information, used github, a lot of learning about java backend frameworks and frontend hookups.

Challenges we ran into

Some members were not familiar with collaborative tools like github/vscode, understanding springboot framework, realizing and applying ideas in a meaningful way

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Team learned and understands github, vscode. Most importantly the project runs and we have a demo to show.

What we learned

teamwork, communication, working together through version control like git and github

What's next for GotchiTracker

fix inefficiencies with backend page controllers, separate html,css,javascript code, implement proper exerise guide, model gotchi after your own persona, include detailed information about exercises, add a macro tracker.

Built With

• css
• eclipse
• github
• html
• javascript
• springboot
• thymeleaf
• vscode