In this article I will present my first week of progress on my personal project called AlgoShell — a coding challenge platform where users can use the command line to test algorithms on a file from their computer. This is in contrast to traditional platforms such as LeetCode and Hackerrank where users interact with an browser-based code editor to write and submit code. This weeks accomplishments are:
The purpose of the admin interface is so that a website administrator can login and manage the questions that are being displayed to a user. After starting up the application, the admin interface is accessible on localhost:8000/admin where an administrator can enter their credentials into a login…
When I took my first programming course, we never used Git to manage our versions as development progressed. As a result, I found myself saving multiple versions of my program as I made small tweaks before submitting. This usually meant I had about a dozen poorly name duplicates on my desktop that I had to reintegrate into my development environment. In my rush to completed one of my last programming projects of the semester, I accidentally submitted the wrong version of the assignment. Little did I know that the submitted program version did not run and resulted in an F on the assignment. …
The importance of creating a virtual environment before starting a Django project and a walkthrough of how to do it yourself.
At one of my very first internships, I was tasked with the creation and development of a Django project. I had no idea what a virtual environment was so when it came time to deploy, I ran into some trouble. The problem was that it was very difficult to distinguish between packages that the project depended on and packages already installed on my computer. …
Today we will look at how to resolve a merge conflict if one should happen to arise when merging two branches.
Suppose we have a Git version history of a single file called 99_bottles.txt
that looks like this:
Here are the contents of the two different versions of 99_bottles.txt
:
On most recent master
commit:
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer.
Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall...
On most recent alternate
commit:
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer.
If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall... …
In this walkthrough, we will be witnessing the power of being able to manage different versions of a file utilizing branches in Git. We start by creating a directory with a python file called hello_world.py
# Create the directory.
$ mkdir hello-world# Go inside the directory.
$ cd hello-world# Create the python file.
$ touch hello_world.py
We’re ready for our first commit! But first, we must create a new Git repository then do something called stage the file. After your first commit, create a new branch called feature
— we’ll get back to it later.
# Initialize the Git repository. …
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