Zuhdan / computer-science-flash-cards

Mini website for testing both general CS knowledge and enforce coding practice and common algorithm/data structure memorization.

Computer Science Flash Cards

This is a little website I've put together to allow me to easily make flash cards and quiz myself for memorization of:

• general cs knowledge
  • vocabulary
  • definitions of processes
  • powers of 2
  • design patterns
• code
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • solving problems
  • bitwise operations

Will be able to use it on: - desktop - mobile (phone and tablet)

It uses:

• Python 3
• Flask
• SQLite

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How to run it

Provided by @Tinpee - [e-mail]

1. Clone project to a directory on your web server.
2. Edit the config.txt file. The username and password will be the login for your site. There is only one user - you.
3. Follow this long tutorial to get Flask running. It was way more work than it should be: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-flask-applications-with-uwsgi-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04
   • wsgy.py is the entry point. It calls flash_cards.py
   • This is my systemd file /etc/systemd/system/flash_cards.service: view
     • you can see the paths where I installed it, and the name of my virtualenv directory
   • when done with tutorial:

   sudo systemctl restart flash_cards
   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   

4. When you see a login page, you're good to go.
5. Uncomment the commented block in flash_cards.py
6. Restart Flask. You have to use sudo systemctl restart flash_cards.
7. Hit the URL /initdb on your web server. You'll see a message that the database has been initialized.
8. Comment that code again.
9. Restart Flask.
10. Go to / on your webserver.
11. Log in.
12. Click the "General" or "Code" button and make a card!
13. When you're ready to start memorizing, click either "General" or "Code" in the top menu.

How to run with Docker

Make sure you already installed docker

• Clone project to any where you want and go to source folder
• Build image: docker build . -t cs-flash-cards
• Run container: docker run -d -p 8000:8000 --name cs-flash-cards cs-flash-cards
• Go your browser and type http://localhost:8000

Happy learning!