adamdavis99 / easy-learning

A django based social platform which provides best resources to learn anything curated by community members.

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 desired place in your file system

mkdir name_of_your_choice
cd name_of_your_choice

• Create a virtual environment in recetly created directory and activate it:

python3 -m venv env
source venv/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<your_mysql_password>
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

• Finally, you’re ready to start the development server:

python manage.py runserver

Visit localhost: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 about defects and things that could be improved or request entirely new features that you think would help others.

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