Implementation-Engineer-Assessment - Paul Ndambo

Prequisites

Clone the folder containing all the files to your computer, use the following commands;- i. For https: git clone https://github.com/Paulndambo/Implementation-Engineer-Assessment.git ii. for ssh: git clone git@github.com:Paulndambo/Implementation-Engineer-Assessment.git iii. you can also download the zip file, clicking https://github.com/Paulndambo/Implementation-Engineer-Assessment.git and on the clone button options, select download as zip
Make sure you clone the project, otherwise any of the stories below won't make sense unless you choose to view the project online,
Either way make sure you have access to the folder.

I have all answered all questions in Section A and selected Q2 in Section B
Solutions, including runnable code examples will be found in the respective folders.
For, example if you are looking for answers of Section A, Question 1,
Open the folder named Section A, inside it you will find a document and code examples
Will be found in a folder with the name of the Question.
Also, please not that respective screenshots will be found inside folder with name
corresponding to the question or section.
NB: Don't look for answers, code examples or screenshots of Section A in folder named SectionB, They are found in folder named SectionA

After cloning/downloading the project, open your terminal/command prompt on the project, such that when you run ls
You see SectionA, SectionB, etc.

For this section, i have provided two things, that is;- i. A .docx file containing responses to the questions. ii. Two folders, each containing .py files, named according to the use of the file, and screenshots.
To be able to run the .py files, you will need python installed and added to PATH on your computer
Unlikely, but if you don't have python installed, you can install it as follows;- i. Go to python.org and click on the download button, or, ii. Inside anaconda on your computer, it will provide a python environment for you
To run .py files, the command structure should be: python3 file_name.py,
For example, python soap_example.py or python3 soap_example.py

For this section, you will find a django project which implements a simple search and results functionality.
To run the django project locally;- i. Running Manually - Change directory to SectionB, that is, cd SectionB - Create a virtual env, on mac and linux use python3 -m venv venv - Activate virtual env, source venv/bin/activate - Run the project as, python3 manage.py runserver ii. Using Docker - To run the project using docker, - change directory to SectionB, that is, cd SectionB - run either of the commands below;- i. docker-compose up to run the project using docker compose ii. docker build -t sectionb . && docker run -p 8000:8000 --name backend sectionb to run as a docker container