This week consists of a programming challenge designed to help you review some of the essential ideas of the course.
You'll find a Python script, send_weather.py, which accomplishes the following:
- Prompts the user for a zip code and a phone number
- Displays the current temperature for that zip code
- Also sends a text message to the phone number that was provided.
However:
- Due to time constraints, it's recommended that you form a group of 2 or 3 people for this activity.
- You will need a file named
keys.py, not included in this repository, in order to run the code. This file will be posted in Canvas. Save it into the same folder as thesend_weather.pyfile. - It's ok if you don't get through this entire exercise during class. Just get as far as you can, and you can work on the remainder at home as practice for the exam.
This amazing little Python script has proved so popular across campus that we've received a million requests to convert it into a reusable Python module, so that other programmers can extend and build upon it!
Your job is try to to convert this script into a reusable library that other developers can import into their own scripts.
A module named weather.py has been started for you already.
Start by forking this repository, then clone your fork to your laptop.
- Careful - do not put the
keys.pyfile into your repository!
Consider the following:
- Are there any improvements you want to make to the current code?
- What's the best design for the module's public interface?
- Would you prefer to drive the design with unit tests instead of trying to decide ahead of time?
- Are there any standard design patterns that would be helpful here?
- You must prevent actual API calls to both the weather and texting services while running the unit tests.
- Create a pull request back to the original repository.
- In your pull request description, indicate whether you started with a design decision or if you wrote tests first in order to drive the design.
- Here are step-by-step instructions if you need it.