Tag Archives: Software Development

Find a Movie

Idea

A service that will search & suggest the best source to stream a movie.

Requirements

User Interface

  1. Login / Authenticate
    1. Google / FB / Twitter / etc
  2. Search / Match Movie
    1. Title / Actors / Director(s) / Release Date
  3. Launch Appropriate App / Launcher to Stream

Backend

  1. Store / Save Popular searches
  2. Aggregate Ratings – Movie / Streaming Service

External Services to Leverage

  1. IMDb – https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMDbPY
  2. Movie – Amazon – http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8014934/amazon-api-instant-video-results / Netflix – http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/optimizing-netflix-api.html / Hulu – http://adammagana.com/2012/09/hulu-hidden-api/
  3. User Authentication – Google – https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2 / FB – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/login-flow-for-web/v2.4 / Twitter – https://dev.twitter.com/oauth

Learn to “Program”

We will use “python”, “ruby” and “swift” as our “programming languages” to “Learn to Program”. Before we begin we will need to check if we have “python” / “ruby” / “swift” already installed on our system. We can do this by typing:

python

or

ruby

If they are NOT, we will need to install. If they are, we will need / want to check the version of “python”.

Once the version is verified, you will want to write your very first python / ruby script. Keeping with tradition, the very first program should be”

  1. Hello World

– manzoor

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Build-a-App

  1. Primary Goal / Objective – “Learn to Program” in Python. The emphasis is on “Programming” / “Software Development” and not on “Python”.
  2. Supporting Goal / Objective – Build and Make Available (publicly) an Application Desktop and Mobile (preferably native for both iOS and Android). The purpose of the supporting goal is to

To Learn:

  1. Programming (starting with Python, but the objective is to learn “Programming” not to learn to “Program in Python” ONLY)
  2. Modern Application – Mobile is definitely one of the objective
  3. Publish an App (in the App Store and Marketplace)

– manzoor

  • Python
  • CoffeeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
  • Ruby on Rails
  • HTML5
  • Java

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