Maritza Gouveia Builds Avocado Farm App After 1 Jersey Coding Course

1 articles · Updated · bailiwickexpress.com · May 29

Python skills from a beginner-friendly Jersey course helped Maritza Gouveia build an app for her father's avocado plantation in Venezuela, letting the family manage the project from thousands of miles away.
The app tracks planting progress through before-and-after photos, records spending on plants and workers, stores participant and payment details, and generates cost reports for the plantation.
Gouveia has also added an AI help button and is developing tools to compare future avocado selling prices and schedule recurring plant-care tasks such as weekly watering reminders.
Three years of prior computer-engineering study fed into the project, which she said was a practical way to sharpen coding skills while creating something useful in everyday life.

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