Echo Evening & Weekend Platoon Final Projects

Echo Evening & Weekend Platoon’s 28-week program culminated in impressive final presentations, showcasing our Veteran Coding Bootcamp graduates’ practical deployed full-stack web applications. These projects demonstrate their mastery of front-end, back-end, and iteration management programming tools mastered during the Full-stack Software Engineering: Evening & Weekend program.

The first presentation in the project showcase is SamurAI Stocks, an AI-powered web app aiding stock market decisions. SamurAI users can explore, save, and track the performance of their stocks over time. They can also view 30-day predictions created by a pre-trained GPT AI model.

The SamurAI team used many frameworks, programming languages, and coding tools to create their full-stack application. JavaScript was their core scripting language, harnessed by the React library to create their dynamic front-end user interface along with Tailwind CSS. Python and Django were used on the back end to store user authentication data via secure cookies.

SamurAI Stocks was developed by a team of Veteran software engineers, including a Marine Corps Veteran and three Army Veterans. Check out their SamurAI Stocks application demo.

Echo Coffee Co. is a custom-API-driven coffee reviewing application. A team of four Veterans representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps developed Echo Coffee Co. In addition to using JavaScript with React and Python on Django, the team developed a custom API for the application using the Django REST API framework. The API adds a coffee’s description, photos, reviews, and ratings under a unique ID assigned to it.

From these features, the program’s users can see existing coffee data and add new drink entries to the app’s PostgreSQL database, save reviews and ratings for different types of coffee drinks to the app’s database, and create a customized drink profile reflecting their coffee preferences from their ratings.

Check out Echo Coffee Co.’s presentation, including a demonstration of their custom API, below.

Chapter Chat is the final demonstration in our graduation showcase. Chapter Chat features a robust database of books for users to explore, add books to a “to read” or “completed” list, and invite other users to join a book club with a responsive messaging board. Chapter Chat also tracks the pages users read and sorts them into a leaderboard visible to the app’s logged-in members. 

Chapter Chat’s book data comes from the Open Library API and is housed in a Django framework using Python. The team created a responsive user interface using JavaScript on React, as well as Excalidraw, an app to whiteboard web application UI, and Humint, an AI color palette generator that lays complementary colors into a mock-up of the web app. Chapter Chat was containerized in Docker and deployed in an Amazon EC2 instance. The team managed the deployment by implementing a simple CI/CD pipeline on GitHub Actions.  

Watch the presentation by the Army Veteran and two Navy Veterans who comprise the Chapter Chat team.

We’re proud of the incredible applications showcased during Echo Evening & Weekend Platoon’s final project demonstrations. Congratulations, graduates!

The entire project showcase and graduation ceremony can be watched on Code Platoon’s YouTube channel.