Culinary Canvas: Kitchen Ingredient List App in Java · Matt Alexius

My first college project: a desktop app in Java for keeping a list of kitchen ingredients. This is where I started writing software.

Culinary Canvas is a simple Java app for keeping a list of kitchen ingredients. It was my first college project, and it's where I learned the basics of program logic, handling data, and taking user input.

What I learned

A first project mostly teaches patience. Compile, run, fix, repeat, which is the loop I'll probably be in for the next decade. It also showed me that even a tiny app benefits from thinking about edge cases, like empty lists and duplicate entries, before writing the happy path.