FPL Assist
Tech Stack
Project Overview
I created this app while I was taking a software construction course at UBC. When I started playing Fantasy Premier League (FPL), there weren't many helper apps that would provide users with sufficient data when it comes to decision making about player picking. It had long gone been my dream to create an app with this idea and I got this opportunity to implement it at UBC.
However, after planning out, I realized how not easy this project was going to be, and with the duration given to complete the project, I decided to go with the FPL team management interface with a dashboard to view player statistics.
It was a great opportunity to apply the knowledge from the course. I understood the concept of OOP well enough after this, and also learnt how important it is to write unit tests for every feature I implemented. This project played a crucial role in securing my co-op at MacroHealth, because I got asked a lot about it haha.
Features
Challenges & Solutions
Data Management
Since before I worked on this, I had in mind that handling the data was going to be a huge task I have to overcome, considering the sheer amount of players available in each team. In the actual Fantasy Premier League app, there are 20 teams with each team having around 25 players. This led me to reduce the number of teams to 7.
My knowledge about data handling was pretty limited, thus I decided to input all those data within the app. This meant that I have to initialise all these data whenever an app is started. There were no big issues about this apart from the fact that my start-up program is very long.
Testing and debugging thoroughly by writing JUnit tests was a fun challenge too, and it definitely helped strengthen the code.
Learning Outcomes
Career Impact
Co-op Success
This project played a crucial role in securing my co-op at MacroHealth, as I got asked a lot about it during interviews!
