https://github.com/mohitkh7/easy-learning
A django based social platform which provides best resources to learn anything curated by community members.
https://github.com/mohitkh7/easy-learning
django hackathon-project kwoc social-platform
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A django based social platform which provides best resources to learn anything curated by community members.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mohitkh7/easy-learning
- Owner: mohitkh7
- Created: 2018-03-12T06:38:27.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-22T04:29:52.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-03-01T08:56:15.203Z (over 2 years ago)
- Topics: django, hackathon-project, kwoc, social-platform
- Language: Python
- Size: 1.62 MB
- Stars: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 19
- Open Issues: 6
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# Easy-Learning
Easy Learning will be a comprehensive web based interactive tool with a complete list of resources to learn any stuff, skills, subject based on community feedback, further tailored according to your learning ability which will also be filterable and searchable.
## Setup Instruction
* Create a new directory at a desired place in your file system
```
mkdir name_of_your_choice
cd name_of_your_choice
```
* Create a virtual environment in recently created directory and activate it:
```
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
```
* Clone the repository and enter to the repository:
```
git clone https://github.com/mohitkh7/Easy-Learning.git
cd Easy-Learning
```
* Next, install the dependencies using pip:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
* After this create database in mysql:
```
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE easylearning CHARACTER SET utf8;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON easylearning.* TO admin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'thepassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
```
Here `admin` and `thepassword` should be same as USER and PASSWORD defined in database settings in `startlearning/settings.py`.
* Once the database table is created, Migrate your database.
```
python3 manage.py migrate
```
* Then create a superuser account for Django:
```
python manage.py createsuperuser
```
* Then generate a API Key:
1. Visit the url https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/
2. Sign in with your google account.
3. Search for **YouTube Data API v3** and enable it.
4. After enabling go to credentials present in the left navbar.
5. Select a project (if none project is present then create one and select). After selecting create a API Key for it.
6. Save the value of API Key in the environment variable. Below command can be used for linux user.
```
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY = "Your API Key"
```
7. For Windows **set** can be used to save the value in env variable.
* Finally, you’re ready to start the development server:
```
python manage.py runserver
```
Visit [localhost:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000/) in your browser to see how it looks.
## Contributing
You can contribute in several ways. If you know how to code or are a designer, you are welcome to contribute using pull requests.
You can also contribute by [opening issues](https://github.com/mohitkh7/Easy-Learning/issues) about defects and things that could be improved or request entirely new features that you think would help others.
Join the [Slack Communication Channel](https://join.slack.com/t/easylearninggroup/shared_invite/enQtNDk2ODgwMTYwMjI1LTllN2Q2OWVmODgwMzZlYjc2MjAwM2Y3NmU0NTBjZTYzYWRhZjM0Y2VlNmM3MGFkNzNmOGMwNDQ2ODVmYmRmMjQ)