Carla B. Ferreira

Carla B. Ferreira

she/her

Developer, Researcher and Information Systems Student at Federal University of Minas Gerais

Q&A platform

A Q&A forum for the UFMG community, developed as a course project for Software Engineering in the first semester of 2025. The main objective of this project is to develop a portal covering questions related to university life, as well as enrollment inquiries and coursework exercises.

forum

Code available at https://github.com/carlabferreira/ForumUFMG

Team Members:

  • Carla Beatriz Ferreira
  • Gabriele Pinheiro Sá
  • Manuela Monteiro Fernandes de Oliveira
  • Vitor Terra Mattos do Patrocínio Veloso

Objectives and Key Features:

The main objective of this project is to develop a Q&A forum for the UFMG community, covering questions related to university life as well as enrollment inquiries and coursework exercises. Key features to be implemented include:

  • User registration and login (Authentication)
  • Creation of new discussion topics/questions
  • Replying to an existing topic/question
  • Home page for registered and unregistered users (topic viewing)
  • Option to delete a topic/question
  • Creation of tags to categorize topics
  • Question search functionality

Technology Stack:

  • Version Control: Git and GitHub
  • Languages & Tools: JavaScript (including Node.js, React, jQuery), HTML, CSS, and MySQL