PEAR

A Pair Programming Platform App.

PEAR is a platform that facilitates collaboration for programmers.

Technology Used

Flask micro-framework to host the web interface.
Jinja2 to template web pages based on Python objects.
Sqlite to link the web framework to the SQL database.
Pure CSS to simplify making the pages look ‘pretty.’
JavaScript simplified adding handy interface features such as a javascript to integrate the firebase sessions and firepad.
Heroku for a free hosting solution easily managed by git and ssh.
Firepad Firepad is an open source real-time collaborative text editor.
Slack Slack API testing token

Main Features

Allow users to create pair programming session
Allow users to edit or delete a pair programming session
Allow users to invite other users into their pair programming session
Integrate a real time editor
Allow users in a pair programming session to chat

Check it out at a glance

Getting your own instance of PEAR app

Clone this repository

$ git clone https://github.com/samsonpaul/bc-12-pair-programming.git
Install project dependencies via pip. It's recommended that you do this in a virtualenv

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Initialize your development database.

$ python manage.py db init
Construct the database and migrate the database models.

$ python manage.py db upgrade
Run a development server.

$ python manage.py runserver

Current

Implementation of slack

Issues

When you send an invite, the current user has to copy and paste the link manually. One needs to just pick the session link from the url tab.
When viewing all sessions, the table displays the session unique key instead of the session name

Milestone/Backlog

Fully intergrate the chat sessions into the app
Ability to view users who are currently online
Ability to implement public sessions where one can share publicly without authentication.