Social media for movie lovers

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis project is to develop a basic social media application which targets a specific group of users – movie lovers. So the project aim is to firstly develop a basic social media application, which is a web application that has basic features of social media such as user authentication, user relationship, news feed, etc. Secondly, the website should provide special features such as movie information, movie reviewing, recommendation system. to target the group of movie lovers. The thesis covers web development in general, database system design and the Python programming language. All processes in web development from planning to implementing and optimizing are discussed in detail throughout the chapters of the study. The project was successfully implemented in 10 weeks with a large code base and a working demo version online. The results prove the importance of planning process, optimization process and open source software in modern software development.