etaskr Coding Task Guidelines
There's few better ways to assess someone's programming skills than to have them undertake a reasonably open ended coding task. This task is borrowed heavily from https://github.com/Westpac-Mobile/CodingTest, so thank-you to those people for such a great boilerplate.
Please do not spend more that 2-3 hours on this task. If it takes you much longer than that, there is something fundamentally wrong with your approach.
Requirements
The task is to create a basic web application that displays the current temperature using https://forecast.io/ using the geo-location of your browser.
Key business requirements
- Display the current temperature in degrees celsius
- Display the temperature based on the geolocation (note; not the IP!) of your browser
- Display a simple icon and label based on the weather information provided (eg. sunny, cloudy, rainy etc).
- The API request must be proxied via your web application ie. do not make a request from the client side directly to https://developer.forecast.io/ for the weather information. It must go via your localhost app.
What we will be looking for in the applicant and the application
We are looking for engineers that can lead technology and design decisions without the need for explicit guidance. We value the following:
- SOLID design principles.
- Single use, inversion of control, dependency injection et al.
- Considered design patterns over spaghetti code. eg. MVC, Pub/Sub, Factory, etc
- Testable, clean code.
- Unit tests.
- Integration tests.
- Simplicity of setup / mocks for testing.
- Modular and maintainable code.
- Package managers.
- Documentation.
- Understandability.
- Coding standards.
- Scalable solutions.
Getting Started
- Fork this repository.
- Register for a free API key at: https://developer.forecast.io/.
- Commit your code, and send us a pull request when you are finished.