Software Setup

The software setup is fairly straightforward: I used Visual Studio for the IDE. I chose this because I wanted to learn a proper IDE that wasn't Visual Studio code, which is a bit simpler at the cost of lacking a bit more functionality. Overall, debugging and organizing a project is much more cohesive in Visual Studio as compared to VS Code. The only dependency is the CURL/LibCURL library which should come preinstalled on all windows machines by default (of which I learned in the worst way possible). I also utilized the Duckduckgo search engine for returning results of the ingredients to be searched.