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51 lines
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6 years ago
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# Calorie Counter
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**Tier:** 3-Advanced
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Getting and staying healthy requires a combination of mental balance,
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exercise, and nutrition. The goal of the Calorie Counter app is to help the
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user address nutritional needs by counting calories for various foods.
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This app provides the number of calories based on the result of a user search
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for a type of food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture MyPyramid Food Raw Data
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will be searched to determine the calorie values.
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Calorie Counter also provides you, the developer, with experience in transforming
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raw data into a format that will make it easier to search. In this case, the
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MyPyramid Food Raw Data file, which is an MS Excel spreadsheet, must be
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downloaded and transformed into a JSON file that will be easier to load and
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search at runtime (hint: take a look at the CSV file format).
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## User Stories
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- [ ] Developer will create a JSON file containing the food items to be
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searched. This will be loaded when the app is started.
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- [ ] User can see an panel containing a food description input text box,
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a 'Search' button, and a 'Clear' button.
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- [ ] User can enter search terms into the food description input text box.
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- [ ] User can click on the 'Search' button to search for the matching food.
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- [ ] User can see and warning message if no search terms were entered.
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- [ ] User can see a warning message if no matches were found.
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- [ ] User can see a list of the matching food items, portion sizes, and
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calories in a scrollable results panel that is limited to 25 entries.
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- [ ] User can click on the 'Clear' button to clear the search terms and
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results list.
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## Bonus features
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- [ ] User can see the count of the number of matching food items adjacent to
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the results list.
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- [ ] User can use a wildcard character in search terms.
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- [ ] User can see more than 25 entries from a search by clicking a Down
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icon button to add more matching food items to the search results list.
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- [ ] Developer will implement load the MyPyramid data into a database or a
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data structure other than an array for faster searching.
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## Useful links and resources
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[MyPyramid Food Raw Data](https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/mypyramid-food-raw-data-f9ed6)
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## Example projects
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[Food Calculator](https://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-food-calorie-counter)
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