AirBnB Clone - The Console

• Holberton project making a clone of the AirBnB web application
• The Console:
  • create your data model
  • manage (create, update, destroy, etc) objects via a console / command interpreter
  • store and persist objects to a file (JSON file)

Breakdown of the Console

Each task is linked and will help you to:

 * put in place a parent class (called BaseModel) to take care of the
  initialization, serialization and deserialization of your future instances
 * create a simple flow of serialization/deserialization:
 Instance <-> Dictionary <-> JSON string <-> file
 * create all classes used for AirBnB (User, State, City, Place…) that
 inherit from BaseModel
 * create the first abstracted storage engine of the project: File storage.
 * create all unittests to validate all our classes and storage engine

Resources

* cmd module
* packages
* uuid module
* datetime
* unittest module
* args/kwargs
* Python test cheatsheet

General

* How to create a Python package
    * How to create a command interpreter in Python using the cmd module
    * What is Unit testing and how to implement it in a large project
    * How to serialize and deserialize a Class
    * How to write and read a JSON file
    * How to manage datetime
    * What is an UUID
    * What is *args and how to use it
    * What is **kwargs and how to use it
    * How to handle named arguments in a function

Command Interpreter

This command interpreter has a few different uses including:

    * Create a new object (ex: a new User or a new Place)
    * Retrieve an object from a file, a database etc…
    * Do operations on objects (count, compute stats, etc…)
    * Update attributes of an object
    * Destroy an object