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This post doesn’t explain much about simulate, rather my experience of building it. Visit Simulate docs to know more. Simulate was one of my first major projects. It taught me one of the most important skills of my developer journey, which is Project Based Learning. In 2019, at the end of my freshman year, Flutter was starting to get super popular. Me and a friend tinkered a bit with Flutter and decided that we can learn it on the go while building something. Flutter seemed quite easy to learn, efficient to use and a perfect fit for me since I had only worked with backend projects and libraries until then. It was a magical technology which would unlock the access to building beautiful UIs without the hassle of CSS and that too on any device! I can talk hours about Flutter but this is about Simulate. So me and the friend searched for some projects and saw a common pattern of people recommending to build a mathematical/algorithmic simulation. We then thought, why not build a collection on these! ...

This isn’t Handwritten Our University decided to conduct OBEs (Open Book Examination) during the pandemic, remotely. It was like normal exams, get the question paper, write answers and get marks but the good thing was, it wasn’t proctored at all. You had 3+1 hours to finish the exam and upload the answers, and that’s it (they didn’t care how you did it). Now for a lot of people, this would sound easy-peasy but for us lazy engineers who hadn’t handwritten anything for almost a year (due to the pandemic), it was a nightmare. We got through the exams though and during the last exam we thought that this process should be automated, we should be able to type out our handwriting. Eureka! ...

We built Handwrite as a CLI App initially (Read More). It was great but a little hard to explain and use through just a CLI app. I also had to show a software project in college so we decided to take this up. I connected with my friend Kartik who was interested in Frontend development and he was in. He built the initial web app while me and Saksham worked on the server. ...