As part of MIS 2402 (Web Application Development) at Temple University, taught by Professor Laurel Miller, I used Anthropic’s Claude as an AI development tool to design and build a functional web application from scratch. The project required prompting the AI to generate a single-file web application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap — then deploying it to a live server via SSH (Secure Shell). For this project, I independently conceived a freelance rate calculator: a tool that takes a freelancer’s target income, business expenses, work schedule, and billable-hour percentage, and computes the minimum hourly rate required to meet their financial goals. My role was to define the requirements, verify the mathematical accuracy of the output against manual calculations, and confirm the application handled invalid input correctly before deployment. The project gave me hands-on experience using AI tools in a professional software development workflow, as well as practical exposure to web technologies and server-side file management.
This application can be found at:
Freelance Rate Calculator
