The latest articles on DEV Community by Soumil Khandelwal (@soumilk). https://dev.to/soumilk https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F393435%2F68d5f7f9-b886-40c3-89a2-ce1b640dc10d.jpeg https://dev.to/soumilk en Soumil Khandelwal Sat, 23 May 2020 08:38:25 +0000 https://dev.to/soumilk/a-package-optimization-application-14m2 https://dev.to/soumilk/a-package-optimization-application-14m2 <p>This is the application that I developed during Smart India Hackathon in 2019. This basically solves the problems of many companies regarding the packaging of their goods. <br> It takes the physical and chemical properties of the packaging materials like plastics, glass, cardboard, aluminum, etc and its cost according to its area. It then applies a greedy algorithm to optimize the packaging area as well as material costs.</p> <h3> <code>{%https://github.com/soumilk/Smart-Package}</code> </h3> <p>I along with my team developed it using Python as backend, using bootstrap/HTML and CSS for frontend. For the database, we used Firebase.</p> python css webdev