BreatheCode's Project-Exercises Pool

By now, everybody knows that learning to code has to be a practical experience: No much reading or watching videos, but choosing projects its still one of the bigges limitations in students learning process because of the following reasons:

• Bad instructions: Making them harder to complete or start.
• Boring projects: Students loose motivation because they don't identify with the project.
• To dificult for your current level: How do I know if I will be able to finish it?
• Old technologies: There are too much projects out there, the majority in old deprecated technologies.
• What do I do if I'm stuck in the middle of the project? There is not model solution or video tutorial to help me.

What is this?

We have decided to create a database of projects for people learning to code. We want to invite anyone to contribute and upload projects using the following guide: Submiting a project.

Once your Pull-Request is approved it will be automatically published as part of the pool in the following link.

The projects API

All projects in the pool are also automatically published in the following JSON API:

HOST: https://projects.breatheco.de/json

API Endpoints

1) Retrieving all the projects:

Request:
    GET /json
    
Response (application/json):

[
    {
        readme: "p/css/beginner/html5-form/README.md",
        preview: "p/css/beginner/html5-form/preview.png",
        status: "draft",
        title: "Create a HTML5 form",
        slug: "html5-form",
        duration: 3,
        description: "Create a HTML5 form with all the typical inputs",
        talents: [],
        info-path: "../p/css/beginner/html5-form/info.json",
        name: "",
        url: "../p/css/beginner/html5-form/",
        technology: "css",
        difficulty: "beginner",
        category: "html5-form",
        folder-name: ""
    }
    ...
]

2) Retrieve single project

Request:
    GET /json?slug=<project_slug>
    
Reponse (application/json):

    {
        readme: "p/css/beginner/html5-form/README.md",
        preview: "p/css/beginner/html5-form/preview.png",
        status: "draft",
        title: "Create a HTML5 form",
        slug: "html5-form",
        duration: 3,
        description: "Create a HTML5 form with all the typical inputs",
        talents: [],
        info-path: "../p/css/beginner/html5-form/info.json",
        name: "",
        url: "../p/css/beginner/html5-form/",
        technology: "css",
        difficulty: "beginner",
        category: "html5-form",
        folder-name: ""
    }

3 Retrieve project preview as an image

Request
    GET /json?slug=<project_slug>&preview
    
Response (image/gif || image/jpeg || image/png)
    The actual image in bytes

Describing the info.json

Property	Required	Data Type	Description
title	true	string	project title
slug	true	string	unique identifier among all projects
status	true	enum	draft, published, deprecated
solution	true	url	solution code repository
duration	true	number	duration in hours
description	true	string	small description
talents	true	array	list of talents form the talen try