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Preparing for technical interviews for software engineering positions can be a daunting process. The most common approach is to practice problems at leetcode.com. However, with thousands of problems on the platform, it can get overwhelming for someone who has no idea where to start. Furthermore, even if you create your own plan for Leetcode problems, it quickly becomes cumbersome to track and manage your progress as you work through your plan. Lastly, it's important to take into account Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve in your interview preparation. However, doing this manually is tedious and takes a lot of manual overhead.

CodeNow aims to improve the interview preparation workflow by providing the user with a customized Leetcode preparation plan based on the user's strengths and weaknesses with common technical interview concepts. CodeNow allows the user to create daily learning goals and schedules Leetcode problems for them to complete every day, while taking into account Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve. Additionally, CodeNow allows the user to visually see their progress as they work through their plan.

Installation

First, you need to clone this repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/CSC301H5/finalprojectw23-jason-s-juniors.git
cd finalprojectw23-jason-s-juniors

Below are the steps needed to set up the backend.

Backend Setup

Before continuing, make sure you have pip or pip3 installed

First, cd into the backend.

cd backend

Now, we will install pipenv which is going to manage our python packages for us.

pip3 install pipenv

Next, let's create the virtual environment and install all of the dependencies.

pipenv shell
pipenv install

That should install everything for you. Let's verify that everything works by running our Django server.

python3 manage.py runserver

That's it!

Frontend

Before continuing, make sure you have npm installed.

Simply cd into frontend:

cd frontend

And run the following command:

npm install

That's it! You can verify that your client is working by running

npm start

Usage

Backend

Make sure that you activate your pipenv if it is not activated. To do this, you can cd into backend and run the following command:

pipenv shell

Then, you can run the Django server using the following command:

python3 manage.py runserver

Database

We are using sqlite for our database. To set up an sqlite database run the following command in the backend folder.

python3 manage.py migrate

You should now see an SQLite database in your directory.

Frontend

cd into frontend and run the following command:

npm start

Contributing

Gitflow

We utilize the Gitflow workflow. We have two primary branches, dev and main.

dev

The dev branch contains our development code.

If you want to contribute to our project, you need to create your feature branch from the dev branch.

Once you are done making changes, please submit a pull request.

Your pull request must be reviewed by at least two people to be merged into the dev branch.

Naming Convention for feature branches

Please ensure that your branch name directly follows the name of the feature. For example, if you are working on adding a calendar into the app, your branch name would be calendar.

main

The main branch contains our official release.

Merges to this branch will be made through a pull request at the end of every sprint. The pull request must be thoroughly reviewed and requires the approval of at least 4 members of the team.

Ticketing System

We will be using Trello to track our issues.