/BackEndHackathon

BACKEND 2-DAY HACKATHON

NerdOut

Using the data from the JSON file, build a funtional FULL CRUD API.

Your Task

As a developer you are assigned to build an api that takes in the data from the attendees.json for the latest "Nerd Out" gathering happening in April.

Create an API that takes in the data from the attendees.json file. You can use Mongoose/Express, Flask, Django RESTful Framework or any technology that you are comfortable with.

At the moment there are 1,000 attendees. You must have endpoints that...

  • Shows all 1,000 attendees
  • Shows all listed based upon what team number that is inputed

GET

 /api/team/1

or

/api/team?q=1

​ should return a list of attendees that is on team 1

  • Shows all based upon one of the following companies: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Amazon, Meta, Sony, Oracle

GET

 /api/company/Apple

or

 /api/company?=Apple

​ should return a list of Apple attendees

  • Show attendees based upon the title: President

GET

 /api/title/President

or

/api/title?q=President

​ should return a list of attendee(s) who's title is President

  • Find attendee id #793 and change their company from Google to NASA
  • Find attendee id #98 Mojo Jojo and delete them from the API
  • Create a new attendee

Bonus:

  • Deploy your API
  • Add a README that goes through what your API does
  • Convert the phone field format from xxx-xxxxxxx to (xxx) xxx-xxxx.
  • Take the date format from month/year and separate it to have it's own fields (month and year)
  • Be able to search by any part of the name and return the results

JSON DETAILS

  • id - integer
  • name - String
  • phone - String
  • address - String
  • city - String
  • state - String
  • country - String
  • postalZip - String
  • email - String
  • Company - String Listed Companies: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Amazon, Meta, Sony, Oracle
  • companyFunded - String
  • userID - String
  • team - Integer From 0 to 20
  • paid - Boolean
  • date - String
  • title - String Listed Titles: CustomerSuccess, FrontEnd, DevOps, QA, BackEnd, FullStack, TechLead, DataScience, ProjectManagement, UI

Attendee sample

{
		"id": 1,
		"name": "Bob Ross",
		"phone": "453-848156",
		"address": "4010 Electric Av.",
		"city": "Las Vegas",
		"state": "Nevada",
		"country": "United States",
		"postalZip": "34556",
		"email": "HappyTrees@happyclouds.edu",
		"Company": "Apple",
		"companyFunded": 82.16,
		"userID": "DO19252537151321083934722339",
		"team": 6,
		"paid": true,
		"date": "02/23",
		"title": "CustomerSuccess"
}

How to approach coding when your mind goes completely blank:

  1. Don't panic; going blank happens to everybody from time to time.

  2. If you do panic, start reminding yourself you can get through this

  3. Take a moment away from the task to stable your mind.

  4. Drawing things out and Pseudocode everything

  5. Break down the code into smaller pieces

There is an more extensive view about debugging and working on code located here: https://www.lifedebugger.dev/docs/debug