Justin Abatzidis Technical Assessment Submission

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Justin Abatzidis' Submission

Date: 12/1/25

BU Email: justin28@bu.edu

Class Year: 2028

Favorite Hobby: Concerts and listening to music

Requirements

Please check off which features you have implemented:

• A catchy name and title with a cool font!
• An interesting and beautiful frontend design with a catchy title and cool fonts and colors that looks good on any screen size.
• A home page with a summary about the interesting thing you want to teach me about. I was originally planning for this to be purely academic (e.g. math, CS, physics, engineering) topics but I am expanding it to include anything. However, you should be able to teach about whatever you choose in a clear way and go in-depth about it. If your subject matter is particularly engaging, that will reflect positively on your application.
• Extra pages with more detailed information on certain topics. Make your website intuitive to navigate through, both within the pages themselves and in your choice of pages. You can structure your website however you see fit.
• A poll/quiz feature where you can check that the user is aborbing the information your website teaches about well. These quiz questions should be scattered throughout the website, and they should tell the user whether they got the answer right or not once they select it. Additionally, it should show a live count of results (like a social media poll) with the names of the users who have voted for each option. You should take time to make sure your UI for this component is intuitive to use while still including all of the features listed. A user should be able to change their result if they want, and this should be reflected in the result count.
• A comment feature on each page where users can offer feedback or ask questions based on the lesson on the page. The home page does not need a comment section, but every other page should have one.
• Deploy the frontend and backend if you can using some of the free deployment tools we talked about in the workshops!

Screen Recording

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WcKurcl4aV4gDB4vlnSkYEy1dWgXDCD6/view?usp=sharing

Deployment

Link: https://tate-mcrae-journey.netlify.app/

Written Portion

1. How did the project go? What parts of it did you most enjoy / find yourself good at?

It went well for the most part. I had to debug a lot, figure out a lot of different coding aspects and new things. I'm not that familiar with coding like this. I really just have the experience from intro CS classes and JDT workshops. It was fun learning about this and implementing everything necessary to have a functioning and visually aesthetic website. I enjoyed writing about my topic since it's something I'm passionate about and I was good at coming up with ideas for that. I don't think I was really good with any of the coding aspects and I had to research a lot and figure out how to code each thing, but I definitely learned a lot.

2. Was this technical assessment what you expected? If you had another two weeks to work on it, what would you add or change?

I think it is what I expected since we've been working a lot with web development and that's basically what this is. I would probably try to make it a lot more visually appealling and more design features. I would also put in more effort and more things that I could say about the artist on my website. More interactive things to make the website more enjoyable for the user.