Cascade-Weather

For when Googles not good enough

capstone project for PDX code guild

Project Overview

Weather/News app. The goal behind Cascade Weather is to create a weather and news app using Open Weather Map api and New York Times api. The app will also be using ip-api to get the users current location. The user will have access to current and forecast weather data as well as the ability to search by zip code

Features

• Locational weather data
• Four day forecast
• Weather data by zip

Data Model

Home page

• Get locational data
  • pass data to weather api
• Load weather
  • pass weather data threw django view
  • pass final data to HMTL

Search

• Get Zip code
  • verify zip code
  • pass zip code to weather api
• Load weather
  • pass weather data threw django view
  • pass final data to HMTL

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Schedule

Week one

Initialize api's

• start django project
• connect to ip-api
• connect to open weather maps
• connect to new york times api

Week Two

Build home view

• sort threw weather data
• assign data to variables
• start displaying weather data

Week Three

Search Functionality and styling

• work on home page styling (bootstrap)
• build django view for search function

Week Four

Finish styling

• Finish styling
• Make last minute corrections/additions