mikekenn / CSCI_Assignment_Two

CSCI_Assignment_Two

Instructions

Create a polls Django project. How you design the UI is your choice, however the website should have the following functionalities:

• Page to display list of all the questions.
• A click of a 'vote' button which lists all of choices for a given question.
• The user must be able to select one of the choices and submit the vote.
• Another page to view the results of the voting for each question.
• Final page to create and modify a question (Django admin interface can be used to do this task.)
• Share the final working code base, with instructions to run the project and required instruction must be specified in the README.md file.

Question 1.

• Create two models in models.py called Question and Choice.
  These 2 models can have any fields that are required for the project. For example: Question model has

question_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)

• What is the models.CharField? and why is it used? (Short 2 sentence answer.)
  • models.CharField is a string field for small to large sized strings. In this case the max length is 200 characters and is used to store the question that will be asked.

Question 2.

• Run a Django shell using the following command and run atleast 3 queries using Django model objects. Example: Question.objects.all()

python manage.py shell

Share the screenshot of your shell.

• Screenshot one.
  
• Screenshot two.
  
• Screenshot three.
  

Question 3.

• Change views.py of your polls app and add a view which should use a template to render.
• When you run the server, you should be able to click on http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to open in browser and it should list all the questions.
• With a button to 'Vote'. On click of vote, it should open the choices for that question and the user must be able to vote on a hoice and submit.

Example:

/polls/ page with list of Questions:

/vote/1/

Question 4.

• Design a page to display the poll results for a given question. /1/results/
  

Question 5.

• Add and edit a question with appropriate choices. You are allowed to use Django admin for this question.
  

Question 6.

• Django is easy to setup and use. Do you agree? (Yes/No)? write a brief reason for your choice.
  • Yes, i think Django is easy to use. The documentation on their site is clean and concise. There is a great public community that supports it and the examples on their site do a good job of explaining its functionalities.

Add Django python setup steps.

1. Check python version/if python is installed python.
2. Check to see if Django is installed/the version python -m django --version
3. If not installed, go ahead and install pip3 install django==4.0.4
4. Create Django project django-admin startproject mysite
5. spin up server python3.11 manage.py runserver
6. Create polls app paython3.11 manage.py startapp polls

Steps to Run.

1. Check Django is installed.
   • Linux/macOS: python -m django --version
   • Windows: py -m django --version
2. Clone GitHub repo.
   • Linux/macOS/Windows: git clone [repoURL]
3. Move into root site folder.
   • Linux/macOS/Windows: cd mysite
4. Spin up server.
   • Linus/macOS: python manage.py runserver
   • Windows: py manage.py runserver
5. Open up browser to following URL.
   • To see the questions: http://127.0.0.1:8000/polls/
   • To see the Admin panel: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

TODOs

1. Could be Dockerized to remove OS dependability.