aldrinjenson / c-quiz

C++ CLI quiz game with mariaDB connectivity and data fetching from trivia-API ✨

C-Quiz

Terminal based quiz application with category based quizzing and SQL Database connectivity!

Features

• fetch categories by making API request from https://the-trivia-api.com/
• make request using selected category and get list of questions in JSON format
• Database connectivity to save and view high scores using MariaDb
• modularised codebase using header and implementation files

Screenshots

Libraries used

• nlohmann/json
• mariadb connector
• poco

Usage

• Install and Start mariaDb

 sudo systemctl start mariadb

• clone this repository
• install the libraries based on your package manager
• connect using the db username and password. Ref
• navigate to project root
• compile and link cpp files using g++

 g++ main.cpp implemetations/*.cpp -lPocoNetSSL -lPocoFoundation -lPocoNet -lPocoUtil -lmariadbcpp

• Ensure that you have internet connectivity

• start program

./a.out

Note: these commands are tested just in Arch Linux for now. There may be slight modifications needed for the commands specific to your OS.