Christopher Hsu's Submission

[christopherhsuu]

Date: 12/1/2025

BU Email: cmhsu@bu.edu

Class Year: 2029

Favorite Hobby: Watching sports

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/drive/folders/1eOHBObK1z8e0Zyoj9rwRN-4M0K0EBfN9

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

Overall, I think my project went pretty well, even though it definitely wasn’t smooth sailing the entire time. Having experimented with web development before helped a lot, because I wasn’t starting completely from scratch. I found myself really enjoying working with UI/UX. I had never added animations to buttons in any of my past projects, but this time I learned how to make elements react when you hover over them, which I thought looked really cool. I also liked playing around with the layout and design, pulling ideas from other sites and then implementing them with my own style. The parts that challenged me the most were the quiz and poll features. I had never used MongoDB or anything similar before, so implementing a database for the first time was rather difficult. I struggled with getting the results to display consistently on the page and had to look things up online and use LLMs to figure out what I was doing wrong.

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

This technical assessment was pretty much what I expected. I figured we would be asked to build a full website, and I liked that we had the freedom to choose a topic we cared about and turn it into something educational. That made it a lot more enjoyable. If I had another two weeks to work on it, I would add more visuals to the website. Right now, there’s a lot of text and numbers, which works, but I think visualizations would make the concepts much easier to understand. Since baseball analytics often involves interpreting movement and angles, being able to show things like a bat path or a heat map would give users a clearer picture of what metrics like “barrel rate” really represent.