Setting out on our first task……..
After the DSC 2.0 workshops, our mentor Felix had split us into groups and assigned to each group the task of visiting local businesses and organizations. We were supposed to gain knowledge about the problems they faced, and make a simple mobile app that would help them in some way.
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Our group(me, Shashank Menon, Karthik Krishna, fathima sherin and Sarath p s)first decided to visit the viyyur public library. We went there and talked with the librarian, Mr. Kevin who answered all our questions enthusiastically. He told us that there were several people who often forget to return the books within the due date. We thus thought to solve the problem by providing with a remainder in the app. We then told him we will study what we could do and then visit him again.
Later we sought advice from our mentor Felix, who told us that it is not recommendable to go ahead with that app. Since the library didn’t have a computerized database of the books.it would take a really large amount of time and resources for us to create such a database, which was beyond our limits. So with some disappointment, we decided to drop the idea.
Two days later, we went to Dr. PJ Antony, with ideas of creating an app to manage his appointments. We couldn’t meet the doctor as he was unavailable then. Instead we talked with his wife, who partially managed his appointments. She told us that all the bookings were by phone, and an app would be helpful to record the patient name, phone no. and such details on booking. Thus we fixed our deal, and arranged for a meeting with the doctor after a clear idea of the app was developed.
