Foxtrot Evening & Weekend Platoon Final Projects

At Code Platoon, the culmination of our Full-Stack Software Engineering: Evening & Weekend program is nothing short of spectacular. Our Veteran and military spouse graduates spend 28 rigorous weeks mastering coding, and their final projects are a testament to their hard work, creativity, technical skills, and real-world problem-solving developed during coding bootcamp. We are thrilled to highlight the projects our graduates programmed and deployed during their three-week final project sprint. Let’s dive into their full-stack creations.

Reputable Restrooms: Find and Review Public Restrooms

Reputable Restrooms is an application designed to help users find the cleanest, closest, and best-reviewed restrooms based on their location. Users can view restroom location pins, read and submit reviews, and see average ratings all laid out on a clean map UI built with Google Maps API.

Although the team was more versed in JavaScript from the Evening & Weekend program, they elected to challenge themselves by using TypeScript on the front end of their final project: “We decided to use TypeScript because it’s versatile and gave Reputable Restrooms a modern touch. After we put things together, we were able to use HTML and CSS for the page’s styling easily. In the long run, I think it saved us a lot of time,” Charles, a Navy Reservist and member of the Reputable Restrooms team, says. 

The project also leveraged React and Bootstrap on the front end, and Python and Django on the back end. The development team comprised two Army Veterans and a Marine Corps Veteran alongside Charles.

Trek Tracker: A Guide to National Parks

Trek Tracker is the next project in the showcase. It was developed by two Army Veterans, an Air Force Veteran, a Marine Corps Veteran, and a military spouse.

“Our motivation for this project was to promote discovery of national parks, educate people, and create lasting memories for friends and family,” Raymond, a Marine Corps Veteran, says. “In the future, we want to implement a way for Trek Tracker users to plan and share trips with family and friends in the application.”

Trek Tracker provides information for visiting national parks in the United States, including available activities and customized weather and news alerts for each location. Users can log their past visits, plan future trips, and even keep a diary of their experiences. Trek Tracker uses the National Parks Service API, the National Weather Service API, and the graduates’ in-house API to create and save park reviews to their PostGreSQL database.

Evently: Event and Guest Management App

The final project demonstrated during the Foxtrot Evening & Weekend Platoon graduation is Evently. Evently simplifies event planning and guest management while sending automatic email notifications via Django’s STMP capabilities. The app also features an event calendar and event windows with details, guest lists, and location maps, enhancing the overall user experience.

Dylan, an Army Veteran, reflects on his learning experience while creating Evently: “When developing our front end with React Material UI, we found that it was easy to box ourselves in, especially when working with its reusable components. If we were starting from scratch again, we should’ve considered scalability earlier.”

“I don’t know if we would have finished had we not deployed early and often. Learning how to set up and configure Terraform was my biggest challenge, but it made it much easier to test,” Matt, an Army Veteran, said.

The rest of the Evently team comprised of an Army Reservist and a Navy Reservist.

Celebrating Success and Looking Forward

Our graduates’ dedication to learning and ingenuity are truly inspiring. As they enter the tech industry, we’re confident they will continue to code and contribute to the future of the tech industry. Congratulations to our Foxtrot Evening & Weekend Platoon graduates on their significant accomplishments!