Made by Team Kune Kune
The Book Swapping App
PiglioTech is an app that lets users display their own personal libraries of books they own, and arrange trades with other people in their area to exchange books. Barcode scanning is used to quickly add books to a user’s library via ISBN, and users can browse other users’ libraries within their region to see what books are available. One of our team members suggested the idea during our initial brainstorming session, and we quickly picked it as a unique and promising idea to develop.
The Team
Jackson Rhoden
Dynamic Project Manager turned developer with technical…
expertise from Harvard’s CS50 and Northcoders Bootcamp. Skilled in Agile, programming, and team leadership, seeking to create impactful software solutions in a junior role.
Kadri Klampe
Junior Java Developer with a background in retail sales and…
hospitality, bringing nearly a decade of experience leading creative projects and specialising in back-end development and database pipeline design, supported by certifications in Azure and Java technologies.
Tawanda Chabva-Shoperai
A Junior Java Software Developer with experience in the…
Aerospace Industry as a Technical Engineer.
Joel Cohen
A recent Physics with Astrophysics graduate with experience…
working in Meteorology and Aviation. Joined Northcoders with the aim of being able to create useful and fun applications while acquiring project experience.
Peter Butcher
Peter was on the backend team for this project, with a hand…
in deployment and web infrastructure during the testing phase. His background is in C and Python.
Tech Stack
We used: Spring boot and Android, Neon, GitHub Actions, Render, ML Kit Barcode Scanner, WebFlux Spring and Android were chosen as they were focuses of the course. The other services and technologies were picked up as required, with a focus on which ones could be more easily integrated so that we had more time to work on the project itself.
Challenges Faced
The main challenges were time, and keeping ourselves organised. We gained a lot of experience using modern technologies and approaches (like GitHub projects, and Agile) in order to best arrange our efforts to get the project done and delivered within the allotted time.