That's awesome! I made a similar app for my high school a year ago back in 11th grade
Show HN: An app for middle school students, made by a middle school student.
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#12That's awesome! I made a similar app for my high school a year ago back in 11th grade https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faschedule/id472827413?mt=8
Cool - I like the personalized schedule...
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#13Nice! I like the logo (maybe your school's mascot?). Keep making apps like this and there's a good chance you could have your own business and work schedule after your schooling.
Thanks! Yeah - the logo is my school district's mascot.
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#14That's awesome! I made a similar app for my high school a year ago back in 11th grade https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/faschedule/id472827413?mt=8
Cool - I like the personalized schedule...
Yea, my school's schedule is extremely confusing (it's a two week schedule, each day is different) so this makes things much easier.
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#15My high school didn't allow students to use cell phones in class and they were frowned upon being visible at all. I can't remember anyone in middle school having a phone although I'm sure people did.
Your school allows you to just use your iPhone willy nilly?
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#16My high school didn't allow students to use cell phones in class and they were frowned upon being visible at all. I can't remember anyone in middle school having a phone although I'm sure people did. Your school allows you to just use your iPhone willy nilly?
Not really - before, the policy was that a student could have a phone on them, as long as they weren't using it.
I had to present to the principal and pitch it to a district committee before the policy was changed. Even now, students are allowed to use their phones in class only with this app (or another teacher-approved app).
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#17My high school didn't allow students to use cell phones in class and they were frowned upon being visible at all. I can't remember anyone in middle school having a phone although I'm sure people did. Your school allows you to just use your iPhone willy nilly?
Not really - before, the policy was that a student could have a phone on them, as long as they weren't using it. I had to present to the principal and pitch it to a district committee before the policy was changed. Even now, students are allowed to use their phones in class only with this app (or another teacher-approved app).
Well done! Congrats on getting this built, but also approved by the school officials. Coding is hard, and it's great that you can do that, but the key development here was convincing the principal to change the policy so well done on that!
I like the idea of the electronic hall pass that changes colour -- probably helped convince the principal to change the policy since that's a direct benefit to the school admin.
What concerns did they raise, and what do you think helped convince them?
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#18Brilliant! I would love to see other schools adopt to it too, may be you should open source it so that other schools can benefit from your code.
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#19This is brilliant! How did you get access to your school's data? I'm assuming the bell schedule is hard coded, but what about the events schedule? I would be surprised if your school provides some sort of developer API, so are you scraping it? When I was in high school, I remember scraping our bell schedule to create Dashboard and Konfabulator widgets. This is much higher quality than anything I made back then!
In a related note, my startup (https://tabuleapp.com) is working on improving managing homework due dates for college students. I guess my itch to collect school data and make it more organized never left me.
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#20This is brilliant! How did you get access to your school's data? I'm assuming the bell schedule is hard coded, but what about the events schedule? I would be surprised if your school provides some sort of developer API, so are you scraping it? When I was in high school, I remember scraping our bell schedule to create Dashboard and Konfabulator widgets. This is much higher quality than anything I made back then! In a…
Thanks! My school uses Google Calendar, so I'm using the Google Calendar API with AFNetworking to fetch the events.
Tabule looks cool, too :)...