DEV Community: Michael Oppong

User Authentication (react-native)

Michael Oppong — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 03:14:40 +0000

Damn, I didn't realize how much of a hassle, user authentication is,

My Fake Bank

Michael Oppong — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:12:07 +0000

Oppongs Fake Bank - React

I made this app because I am still in the process of learning how to use react native, I chose this because I wanted to learn how to use Redux as well.

Getting Started

Download files and unzip them
run yarn install, and npm install

Running program

After the previous step, run the command below in the main project folder

expo start

Future Work

In the future, I hope to be able to add an online feature where you can authenticate and connect to an online database.

Acknowledgments

mosh
react-native,
expo
redux

Author

Michael Oppong

Link to GooglePlay Store

Here

there isn't a link to the ios store because I am broke :(

Fake Bank - React Native

Michael Oppong — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:51:02 +0000

The purpose of the application is to teach kids, and those who want to learn, how transactions with a bank account would work. Currently not done, but if you have any tips, I would appreciate it.

My second React Native Project

Michael Oppong — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:53:39 +0000

This will be basically a copy of the Scotia Bank application when updated, I thought it looked cool, so here is my journey and trying to copy it.

https://is5-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/26/34/8b/26348b86-5515-9142-9a29-0abae9fb418a/pr_source.png/392x696bb.png

First React Project

Michael Oppong — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:21:09 +0000

Hello, I just finished my First React-Native project, it is a tictactoe game, nothing complicated. Currently learning the ins and outs of react, if you have any advice for learning react, please let me know. :)

link to code and game in google play store here
https://github.com/mioppong/react-tic-tac-toe

Should I Worry About how my app looks on the web?

Michael Oppong — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 00:42:53 +0000

COVID-19 stats - Phone Call

Michael Oppong — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 23:19:43 +0000

What I built

I built a voice response application that uses Twilio's voice API. It asks users for a country or continent, then responds with the number of total cases, along with total deaths. After that, it gives the user a positive message.

Demo Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bSIk4ymVGnLZTVC9wZGoWvu74F_KKzA8/view?usp=sharing

Link to Code

https://github.com/mioppong/twilio_hackathon

Okay so I have recently been taking online courses in the data science field as I am graduating from comp sci soon, I am hoping to focus within this area. I made NBA predictor, and which scraped a basketball stat website, and thought I could apply the same logic here.

TIMELINE ON HOW I BUILT MY PROJECT

I follow about 1000 Twilio tutorials in python to see how things work
I make my own Twilio app to tell my little brother to go to sleep when its too late
Then use the app I made to tell my brother to go to sleep and turn it into an answering one.
I scrape the https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ for info on how countries are dealing with corona
make an app which asks users for specific countries, and I respond with the total cases and total deaths in that country

ISSUES

some issues I had, was the voice Twilio API not being able to recognize my voice saying certain countries. Apart from that, everything went bless!!
another major issue I had during this project, was the website https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ constantly updating their website, so I had to change the way I scraped the table with all the information.

What I learned

Now I understand the backend, when I call the bank and they say "in a couple of words, say the reason why you called"

Additional Resources/Info

big s/o to Twilio
big s/o to dev.to
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Covid facts

Michael Oppong — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:06:40 +0000

Web scraping is really annoying when a website keeps changing eh