Share N Learn is a Common Platform for Students & Faculties to upload and share files including all sorts of study material which will be accessible to all the registered members.

Goal

To create a secure and scalable platform common to both college students and faculties so that they can easily share the resources related to coursework hence reducing the dependency on social media platforms.

In the future, the platform can also serve as an e-library for college students.

Tech Stack

• HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Python Django Framework

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Development Environment Setup: Windows

Step 1: Downloading and Installing the Code Editor

You can install any one of the following code editors.

• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime Text 3
• Atom

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Step 2: Installing Python 3.7

Download Python 3.7 or higher

• Download the Windows x86-64 executable installer for the 64-bit version of Windows
• Download the Windows x86 executable installer for the 32-bit version of Windows.
• Make sure to check 'Add Python 3.7 to Path' in the setup window of the Installer.

Verify the installation from the command prompt (Terminal) using the following command,

python --version

Installed version of python will be printed.

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Step 3: Installing Git

Download Git

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Step 4: Fork the Repository

Click on to fork this repsository

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Step 5: Creating Project Directory

Note: We're creating project directory on the desktop for easy and fast access.

cd desktop

mkdir myprojects

cd myprojects

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Step 6: Cloning Repository using Git

git clone https://github.com/'<your-github-username>'/sharenlearn.git

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Step 7: Change directory to sharenlearn

cd sharenlearn

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Step 8: Add a reference to the original repository

git remote add upstream https://github.com/chiraag-kakar/sharenlearn.git

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Step 9: Creating Virtual Environment

Install virtualenv

pip3 install virtualenv

Creating Virtual Environment named myvenv

virtualenv myvenv -p python3.7

To Activate myvenv

myvenv\Scripts\activate

To deactivate myvenv

deactivate

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Step 10: Installing Requirements

Note: Before installing requirements, Make sure Virtual Environment is activated.

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Step 11: Making database migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

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Step 12: Creating superuser to access Admin Panel

python manage.py createsuperuser

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Step 13: Running the Project in local server

Note: Before running the project in local server, Make sure you activate the Virtual Environment.

python manage.py runserver

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💡 Pro Tip!

• Always keep your master branch in sync with the main repository byr running the following command on the local master branch. Refer this stackoverflow page.

git pull upstream master

• Always create a new branch before making any changes. Never ever make any changes directly on the master branch. To create a new branch,

git checkout -b '<new-branch-name>'

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Congratulations on setting up the project locally.

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Contributing

• Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

• For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

• Note: Please take a moment to review the Contributing.md and Code of Conduct which provides the guidelines for contributing.

• Fork the project.

• Create your Feature Branch

git checkout -b '<your_branch_name>'

• Stage your changes

git add .

• Commit your changes

git commit -m '<your_commit_message>'

• Push changes to remote

git push origin '<your_branch_name>'

• Open a Pull Request

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Contributors

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

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Chiraag Kakar