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LearnTeachCode / pair-partners

A web app that helps people find study partners for virtual pair programming and collaboration
http://learnteachcode.org/pair-partners/
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feature where you are linked based on location #2

Open kammitama5 opened 7 years ago

kammitama5 commented 7 years ago

studybuddy3

LearningNerd commented 7 years ago

Thanks @kammitama5, great job outlining your idea! I agree this would be a super useful feature! :)

Suggestions for this user story:

  1. You could separate this out into multiple user stories for more modular feature descriptions.
  2. Try rewriting the user story from the perspective of a particular kind of user, rather than from your point of view as a developer. Sorry I didn't make that clear -- one of the goals is to get into the shoes of a potential user of the app, someone from our target audience. :)

So I might rewrite your user story as something like this, separated into multiple stories/features:

  1. As a student learning computer science [or you can be even more specific here, like say "learning JavaScript"], I want to find study partners who live closest to me, so that I don't have to go very far from my house to meet with them.

  2. As a computer science student who just found a nearby study partner, I want to see a map with directions to our meeting location, so that it's super easy to plan how I'll get there.

  3. As a computer science student who just found a nearby study partner, I want to see a list of good meeting places (coffee shops/libraries/etc) that are near both of us, so that we can easily pick a meeting place that's convenient for both of us.

Next steps:

If you feel like digging into this topic more:

  1. Maybe try breaking these features down into even smaller steps to get a better sense of what it will take to develop and how much work it might be.
  2. Do some research on how we could implement these features -- for example, which APIs we could use for geolocation? What limitations do those APIs have?

And if you do work on this one some more, please share more in this thread! And on your blog :) which I see you already did, woohoo!!

kammitama5 commented 7 years ago

userdiagram I did a more user-friendly one, in the manner a person using it might understand/ want to use it. Start from the top left..it continues to top right, etc.

LearningNerd commented 7 years ago

Great job @kammitama5, love the icons too haha, it's a work of art! :) We'll work more on all this together tomorrow of course. My only suggestion is to start to break it down even smaller and to write out user stories for each of these separate features that you've identified in these new diagrams.

Isn't it amazing how easy it is for one idea to suddenly turn into a bazillion features? haha :) It's definitely a challenge to zoom in on all the little pieces and separate them out!