mburst / problemotd

Problem of the Day: A new programming or logic puzzle every Mon-Fri

Problem of the Day

Install

You'll need to have python installed. My development environment has 2.7 but I believe it'll work on 3.x. You'll also need Postgres 9.x installed

pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate

Create a user account when prompted to do so.

You can login at /admin (the login on the homepage doesn't work with Django authentication). From the admin panel create a new problem.

python manage.py runserver
#or
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python tornadows.py --port 8000

Cron Jobs

E-mail out problem daily (requires MANDRILL_API_KEY)

python manage.py send_problem.py

How to get Involved

• You can always suggest problems at http://www.problemotd.com/suggest/
• Check Github issues for open tickets that need to be fixed
• Create an issue for the feature you'd like to work on. We can work out a scope and get you started ASAP
• Contact me and we can work out an idea that fits your interests

Along with your first pull request please update the AUTHORS file

problemotd's Issues

Update to Django 1.7

It may be as simple as updating the requirements to 1.7. I haven't had the chance to play around with 1.7 much. It would be nice to have schema migration setup as well.

Add database migrations

Always good to have. Can wait till #3 is resolved.

Remove gunicorn from requirements

Pretty sure this isn't in use any more

Update footer to include github repo

Something like "Content curated by @MaxBurstein | Contribute on Github"

Change preview endpoint to use POST

Implement new Google reCAPTCHA

In order to get more users by making the anti-spam easier, sign up to use Googles new reCAPTCHA system.

Site Redesign

The site was made fairly quickly with bootstrap. If you're in to UI/UX and have some ideas please post them here.

Profile view

When logged in and you click your name it should take you to a profile view. The profile view should have a list of your comments and links to the associated problem.

Implement cache busting

Had made a go at this with django-compressor but ran in to problems on serving the files in production. Would be great to have this working. Feel free to use something besides django-compressor

Last Problem Has No Solution

The last problem has been bugging me for 2 years now. There is no solution aside from silly tricks (use a rope to pull the boat back, etc).

Add next/previous links to problem pages

I'd find it useful if a problem page had a link to the previous and next problems (if they exist).

For example, Letters to Numbers would have Moving Dot as previous and Vacation 2014 as next

Python 3.x Requirements.txt

Unable to install Django for python 3.4. Fails on line 18 of oauth2\setup.py.

print in 3.x must have ()'s instead of just "". A fix would be print("unable to find version is %s" % (VERSIONFILE,)). I don't know if you have access to these files or not however

Twitter bot

Inside the send_problem management command a method should exist to post the title and link of a problem to a designated twitter account.