CodeCollab: Code Collaboration

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Getting Started
• Contributing
• License

Overview

CodeCollab is a platform dedicated to mutual support and collaboration between students of software engineering, ICT, 3IL, and any student with a passion for IT. It offers a space where students can share knowledge, solve programming problems together and develop their technical skills. The platform has the following features:

1. Discussion forum: Students can ask questions, share tips and discuss topics related to programming, programming languages, frameworks, development tools and more. They can also take part in discussions on specific topics and benefit from the experience of other members.

2. Mentoring system: More advanced students or software engineering professionals can sign up as mentors and offer their expertise to help beginner students. Mentors can give personalized advice, guide students through their projects and provide additional resources.

3. Project collaboration: Users can form teams and collaborate on programming projects. The application provides real-time code-sharing tools, enabling members to work together on the same project, solve programming problems and track code changes.

4. Code library: Students can contribute to a code library where they can share snippets, code examples and solutions for common programming problems. Users can search for reusable code and find solutions to their own programming challenges.

5. Learning resources: The application offers a selection of learning resources such as tutorials, articles, videos and online courses to help students improve their software engineering skills. Users can also recommend resources they have found useful.

6. Events and competitions: CodeCollab can organize online events such as hackathons, programming challenges and competitions, where students can practice their skills, win prizes and interact with other members of the community.

Getting Started

To get started with CodeCollab, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. In the root of the repository go to the Backend folder (cd backend) and install the required dependencies with the command npm install. Do the same for the Frontend folder.
3. After the installation of required dependencies launch the server in backend with npm start and do the same in Frontend.
4. Then enjoy the app.

Contributing

Contributions to CodeCollab are welcome!

License

CodeCollab is released under the MIT License.