Personal Project Showcase: Circles

Ever stared at the UNSW Handbook for hours trying to figure out
what subjects you need to take? Ever wished that there was a
simple and even aesthetic way of planning your degree?


That’s exactly what Hayes, James and Vincent thought when they
decided to create Circles, the People’s Choice winner of the 2020
CSESoc Personal Projects Competition! Arsham and Sunny pick their
brains on all the ups and downs of developing a winning webapp,
including:


  How to learn a React library that DOESN’T have any Youtube
tutorials or articles,   What to do when UNSW changes their
website completely halfway through the project, and   What
motivated them to work on the project every night


If you’re interested in entering the Personal Projects
Competition this year, the competition is still open and ends
September 12th! Check out more information and sign up here:
https://bit.ly/CSESocPersonalProjects2021


The Circles team mention this article in the podcast:
https://purelyfunctional.tv/guide/programming-projects-resume/


Timestamps


01:15 Competition and project overview 06:38 Team background
11:52 Deciding on the project 17:12 Team roles 19:49 Language
details and relevant UNSW courses 21:55 Learning process for
project development 29:24 Technical development and timeline
34:35 Setbacks and roadblocks 38:49 Motivation 40:29 Future of
Circles 46:11 "the +1 approach to programming projects"