LifeAtHere, The Complete Full Stack Development
Senior Design was the ultimate challenge for me, as it marked the culmination of my engineering education. I saw it as an opportunity to showcase my abilities and put my skills to the test. My team was given a full stack development project that we had little experience with, but we all had different skill sets that complemented each other. It was crucial to identify our strengths and weaknesses early on to ensure the project's success. Under the guidance of Alan Marchiori, we began our design process, conducting thorough research to determine what we needed to accomplish our project. Our project required a web application, server, and database. We aimed to develop a server that could process requests from the front-end to the back-end and communicate with our database to fetch information for display on the front-end. After careful consideration, we chose Python Flask as our server and MongoDB as our database. We decided to use ReactJS for the front-end due to its scalability and cross-browser compatibility. Though we faced some performance issues due to Python Flask's limitations, we were able to learn and implement a fully functional product that Bucknell Campus now uses. The experience taught us a great deal about web development and working as a team to solve problems. We started the project with no prior knowledge of how to approach it, but we ended up with a product that we are proud of. It was a testament to the education and skills that Bucknell provided us, which we were able to apply successfully in our first full stack development project. It was a memorable and rewarding experience for all of us involved.