volcano-dragon / greeting-time

A project in C++ which fetch the time from the system and greet the user according to the time fetched.

⭐Greeting-Time⭐

Table of Contents🧾

• Introduction📌
• Technology Used🚀
• Overview⭐
• Getting Started💥
• Installation of Library📑
• Additional files required for Program📑
• Contributing Guidelines📑
• Code Of Conduct📑
• Project Admin⚡
• Contributing is fun🧡

Introduction📌

Greeting-Time is a console application that welcomes users with a personalized greeting based on the current time of day, provides a random motivational quote for inspiration, and fetches real-time weather information using an API request, keeping you informed and motivated throughout the day.

Technology Used🚀

Overview⭐

1. The Time on the system is 09:00 AM

2. The Time on the system is 12:00 PM

3. The Time on the system is 08:00 PM

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Getting Started💥

• Fork this Repository.
• Clone the forked repository in your local system.

git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/Greeting-Time.git

• Open the GreetingTime.cpp file in your local code editor.
• Run the code and you will see the greeting according to the time of your system.
• Raise an issue if you want to add a feature or fix a bug.
• Wait for the issue to be assigned and proceed only after the issue is assigned to you.
• Navigate to the project directory.

cd Greeting-Time

• Create a new branch for your feature.

git checkout -b <your_branch_name>

• Perfom your desired changes to the code base.
• Track and stage your changes.

# Track the changes
git status

# Add changes to Index
git add .

• Commit your changes.

git commit -m "your_commit_message"

• Push your committed changes to the remote repo.

git push origin <your_branch_name>

• Go to your forked repository on GitHub and click on Compare & pull request.
• Add an appropriate title and description to your pull request explaining your changes and efforts done.
• Click on Create pull request.
• Congrats! 🥳 You've made your first pull request to this project repo.
• Wait for your pull request to be reviewed and if required suggestions would be provided to improve it.
• Celebrate 🥳 your success after your pull request is merged successfully.

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Installation of Library📑

For fetching the details of wheather from an API request. The following two libraries are required to be installed:

• curl/curl.h
• nlohmann/json.hpp

Installation:

• curl/curl.h
• Step-by-step installation of curl for Visual studio
• nlohmann/json.hpp

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Additional files required for Program📑

Text files for printing the randomized quotes from the text file according to the current time:

• Mo.txt (For Morning motivation quotes)
• Af.txt (For Afternoon motivation quotes)
• Ev.txt (For Evening motivation quotes)

Text file for fetching the current wheater of a location:

• cnf.txt

How to edit the text files

Editing quote text files:

• Make sure to add the hashtag "#" after the last quote so the program can stop reading further.
• Keep Serial number in format so the program can select the quotes randomly.

Editing the wheater location text file:

• Just replace the text only with your city name (like: Bhopal, Delhi)
• To change the location of country, please edit the URL (variable name = user_city) in the source-code
  (like: "...&query="+ buffer +",%20Japan")

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Contributing Guidelines📑

Read our Contributing Guidelines to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build to Greeting-Time.

Code Of Conduct📑

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

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Project Admin⚡

Rakesh Roshan

Contributing is fun🧡

Contributions of any kind from anyone are always welcome🌟!!

Give it a 🌟 if you ❤ this project. Happy Coding👨‍💻

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