Hackathon app help needed

CS Principles Coding and Debugging Help
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I have a student who is trying to build an app to do the following:

  1. Have the user select a conference and division on the home screen and when they click Done, be taken to the “Choose a Team” screen.
  2. From the “Choose a Team” screen, select a team and when they click Done, be taken to the “Logo” screen where they see a picture of the logo for the team they picked.

Here is a link to the code:

Is there a way to do this?

When they get to the second screen, they couldn’t figure out how to get a dropdown to show the choices for the conference and division selected because you have to enter the options for a dropdown.

I’m not sure of an efficient way to do this and am not sure how to help the student.

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Add a dropdown menu to that screen in design mode. Then set the property of that dropdown menu like this

setProperty(“dropdown1”,“options”,afcnorth);

In the above example, the name of the dropdown element is dropdown1. We are setting the options to the items in the afcnorth list.

I hope this helps.

3

Thank you. In Design Mode, what should be entered for the options? If you clear it out, it just lists the options with commas between them - not separate selectable items.

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In design mode, you will leave the options blank or have a filler in there. In your code, you can update the options in the dropdown based on the choices made. Here is a simple example that I made for my students: App Lab - Code.org

Look at line 13 of the code. It’s not perfect but it saves me the hassle of hard-coding those options, especially since the Spotify data changes everyday.

5

Hi @smiths,

What a cool idea for an app! Before we help any further, can you please confirm that this app is not for the student’s Create PT submission?

Thank you!
–Michael K.

6

Hi Michael,

This is for the Hackathon project.

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Awesome, thanks! I saw that some other users gave some feedback. Did you still have questions, or was your student able to achieve it based on this?

–Michael K.