GeoDev SWE Interview

Why an assignment for our interview?

The GeoDev team wishes to give every aspiring team member a fair chance to show off their skills. Traditionally, coding interviews test how hard students study, but they fail to test how good someone is at the actual job. This assignment walks students through a full-stack codebase where students are given the opportunity learn, have fun, and accomplish a real GeoLab task.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Python (i.e. intro to cs, intro to data science, or self-taught)
A recent version of Node JS installed on your computer
An installation of Python 3.7 or newer.
- download for macOS
- download for Windows.
An installation of git (Windows Only).
- Download for Windows.
A code editor like VSCode (Optional)

When you have completed these steps, try running the following commands in a terminal (or Command Prompt if Windows):

npm --version
git --version
python3 --version

Getting Started

If you ran the above commands successfully, cd into the folder where you would like to store the project. Here is an example:

cd Documents
git clone https://github.com/jacobsomer/GeoDev-SWE-Interview.git
cd GeoDev-SWE-Interview

Running the Flask server

Once you are in the GeoDev-SWE-Interview folder on terminal, run the following commands

python -m ensurepip --upgrade
pip install Flask
cd server
set FLASK_APP=index
flask run

set FLASK_APP=index may cause an error if you are using a different terminal than CMD (ex. bash, fish, powershell). If that is the case, please read the docs for the right command. If you have done everything right. You should see something like this:

 * Serving Flask app "index"
 * Environment: index
 * Debug mode: off
 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Feel free to open http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in Chrome or safari once you have gotten to this step. You should see something like this:

{"direction":"S","speed":3}

Running the React frontend

Open up a separate terminal and cd back into the GeoDev-SWE-Interview folder (same folder where you ran git clone https://github.com/jacobsomer/GeoDev-SWE-Interview.git). Run the following commands:

cd client
npm install
npm start