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TheTiPoint

Our university's cozy little cafe on your smartphone!


The problem TheTiPoint solves

Students, and faculty have to wait in line or run to and fro to give orders or to remind the shopkeepers to tend to their demands, and to solve this genuine problem, we bring 'TheTiPoint ' to your service. One of the best programmes to take orders, give orders, select from the menu, add or remove vendors who supply stuff, and collect information about sales of the day. It makes tasks easier for both students, faculty and vendors. There's an additional feature for faculty: Deliver/ Eat now. It helps teachers/ other staff to give a particular time to deliver their orders to their staff room or personal cabins if they're too busy to walk downstairs. This makes less hassle while calculation, the graphs are not a visual pleasure for the owner but a strategical way to see the growth without doing manual calculation.

Challenges I ran into

Debugging was very difficult as the lines of the code exceeded my expectations. They were too many to look after. I faced problems while authenticating the food items, and navigating through it. I was facing problem on how to get started and thankfully was helped by ChatGPT. TheTiPoint is my first project, and therefore I was confused as to how to figure out the tech stacks. Thankfully I was able to go through the program step by step. The food authentication is still not fixed and I'm eager to find a way on how to do so. The data visualisation part compelled me to add matplotlib library in order to make the program more interactive in nature. There wasn't any data available outside, so I had to create my own set of data and use it. The program ran smoothly with small set of features but as there were more add ons, it became a little tough to handle. The updated menu for vendors and staff is not visible but when you put the code it righteously works. It was making me restless and left me with no other option but leave it like that. I'm still working on how to feature it. TheTiPoint is imperfect but surely with time it would become one of the best little project.

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