Trivia Game - Copy

Trivia Game - Copy

1. Available Resources

   • Hardware
     • Laptop
       • Access to resources
     • Information
       • Internet
         • StackOverflow
           • A community-based space to find and contribute answers to technical challenges
         • W3Schools
           • A freemium educational website for learning coding online
         • JSON beautifiers
           • Adds spaces to JSON data to make it more understandable
   • School resources
     • Curriculum
     • Technical proposal
   • Software
     • Python
       • Modules
         • flask
           • Web framework for simple applications
         • urllib
           • Fetches URLs
         • json
           • Parses JSON strings and files containing JSON objects.
         • random
           • Implements pseudo-random number generators.
     • JSON
       • APIs
         • Open Trivia API
         • Other APIs
     • HTML
     • CSS
     • Jinja
       • Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax.

2. Impacts

   • Personal
     • Data privacy principles
       • APP1-13
     • Data security
       • No user data collected or stored
       • All data stores are temporary
     • Education
       • Learning through quiz questions
         • Useful in daily life and interaction
     • Health and wellbeing
       • Challenges the mind
   • Social
     • Education
       • Culture
         • Education about different cultures
       • Communities
         • Education about various communities, social groups and clubs
       • Access to wealth, services and opportunities
         • Access to new or improved knowledge and improved knowledge management
   • Economic
     • Jobs
       • People hired for maintenance
     • Revenue
       • Could advertise on the platform

3. Ideation

   • Data interface
     • HTML template
       • Jinja
         • Displaying data
           • {{data.category}}
         • Using loops
           • {% for answer in answers %}
         • Using conditions
           • {% if ns.current_pos == secret %}
           • Uses namespace
             • {% set ns = namespace(current_pos = 0,done=False) %}
         • Setting variables
           • {% set ns.current_pos = ns.current_pos + 1 %}
   • Data structure
     • A means of organizing and storing data so that we can perform operations on the stored data more efficiently
     • JSON
       • Array with the name "results"
         • Curly braces containing all data for one question
           • Name and value pairs separated by commas
       • Difficulty and category of questions decided by user through form
     • Python
       • Arrays
         • categories, incorrect_answers and question_data
   • Data specifications
     • A guideline to ensure comprehensive and consistent data definition
     • The attributes required to quantify data definition
     • Dataset name
       • categories
         • All categories from Open Trivia API
       • question_data
         • All data for 10 questions from Open Trivia API
       • incorrect_answers
         • Incorrect answer(s) for one question from Open Trivia API
     • Transmission frequency
       • Once
     • Transmission volume
       • 2-4KB
     • Transmission format
       • JSON
     • Transmission encryption
       • None
     • Data storage
       • Arrays
     • Data security
       • None
   • User interface
     • Start page
       • To choose trivia question category and difficulty
         • Form
           • Dropboxes
             • Get categories from Open Trivia API to loop as options in category dropbox
           • Submit button to POST form
     • Trivia game page
       • Centre container
       • Use while loop to allow game to accept true and false questions and answers
         • while i < # of questions, append question[i] to incorrect_answers
       • Fix answers boxes so that long answers don't overflow
     • End game page
       • Add a play again button

4. Constraints

   • Time
     • 10 weeks
       • Managed for Parts 1, 2 and 3
       • Explore, develop, generate, evaluate
   • Resources
     • Open Trivia API
       • Only 1 Category can be requested per API Call. To get questions from any category, don't specify a category.
       • A Maximum of 50 Questions can be retrieved per call.
       • Needs fast and stable internet connection.
   • Scope
     • Context and criteria
       • Re-develop a trivia game to use trivia questions from an open API data source instead of a local database

5. Criteria

   • Prescribed
     • Use trivia questions from an open API data source
       • JSON data exchange language
       • urllib python library
         • GET data from url
       • Open Trivia API
         • Open API data source
       • Remove local database
       • Remove sqlite3 code
     • Simulate the exchange of data between two digital systems
       • Use a RESTful architectural pattern
       • Use the JSON data exchange language
       • Use an HTTPS communication protocol
       • Exchange data with an API using URIs
   • Self-determined
     • User interface
       • Useability Principles
     • Functionality
       • Replay button
         • Add a button to the endgame.html template
         • Questions must be different for every replay
         • Put initialising process in a startup function
           • Getting the JSON document from with the URI from the API, reading it and placing the data in a variable.
       • Choose trivia difficulty and category
         • Create a start page for the game
           • Same style as the others
         • Add dropdowns for category and difficulty
           • Use categories gotten from the API using a URI to fill the options of the category dropdown
         • Add user input to the URI to fetch customised data

6. Requirements

   • Functional
     • File format
       • .py, .json, .html, .css
     • Data structure
   • Non-functional
     • Usability
       • Learnability
         • The user can immediately grasp how to interact with the interface
       • Effectiveness
         • How well the user interface helps the user
       • Accessibility
         • The ability to be used by different people
       • Utility
         • The system provides all necessary functionality
       • Safety
         • The ability for users to recover from mistakes
     • Availability
       • Work without internet/ with poor internet
         • Local JSON document
     • Maintainability
       • Updates to Open Trivia API updates application
     • Security
       • Data Privacy Principles