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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Setting up
  • Pre Requisites
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Usage(Setting up the files)
  • Editing data.json
    • Welcome
    • Teams
    • GeneralRules
    • Rounds
  • Editing qns.json
  • Editing media files
• Usage
  • Welcome
  • Teams
  • General Rules
  • App
• TOOLS

Note: For instructions related HTML refer TOOLS section

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Setting up

Pre Requisites

Any good code editor or IDE
    recomended : VS Code

Linux

Move the Quiz file from the dist folder to the root folder and execute it in the terminal

./main

Windows

Move the main.exe file from the dist folder to the root folder and execute it

Usage(Setting up the files)

There are two main files for the user to edit in order to get desired results
    - Json/data.json
    - Json/qns.json
Examples are included in Json/examples folder for referance

Editing data.json

This file is responsible for everything other than the question's content. From deciding the teams to organising rounds everything is done here

The file structure:

    1. Welcome
    2. Teams    
    3. GeneralRules
    4. Rounds

Welcome

This part has two values one is Topic and other is Hosts

Example:

    "Welcome":  
        {
            "Topic": "Engineering Physics",
            "Hosts": ["Naveen", "Karthi", "vicky"]
        }

Here Topic is a string and Hosts is a json array

Teams

This part also has two values, one is Team_Names and other is Players_NO

Example:

    "Teams":
        {
            "Team_Names"   : ["Team A", "Team B", "Team C", "Team D"],
            "Players_NO"   : 10
        }

Here Team_Names is a list of team names and Players_NO is a integer denoting Number of players in each team

GeneralRules

This part has only one value 
it takes either HTML or plain text as input

Example:

    "GeneralRules": 
    "General Rules"

or

    "GeneralRules": 
    "<p style='text-align: center;font-size:100px'><strong>General Rules</strong></p>"

Here GeneralRules is the one that is displayed in general rules

Rounds

This part has n number of values, each having 6 values named nos, rules, tick, plus, minus, time

Example:

    "Rounds":
        {
            "Round 1":
                {
                    "nos"   : 1,
                    "rules" : "<p style='text-align: center;font-size:50px'>Rules for Round 1</p>",
                    "tick"  : 50,
                    "plus"  : 25,
                    "minus" : 0,
                    "time"  : 10
                },
            ...
            ...
            ...
        }

Here there can be n number of rounds each having 6 values

nos is a int refering Number of Questions in each round

rules may be a plain text or HTML Defining the rules and scoring conventions of the round

tick is a int that denotes The points that will be awarded for each correct answer answered by the team

plus is also a int that denotes the The points that will be awarded for each Bonus answers by a team

minus is also a int that denotes the The points that will be deducted for each Wrong answers by a team

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Editing qns.json

This file is responsible everything related Questions. It consists of n number of <RoundName>_Q<No> each having four values named content, options, answer, explain.

Example:

    "Round_1_Q1" : 
        {
            "content" : "<h1>Q1\n</span>\n</h1>",
            "options" : ["a1", "b1", "c1"],
            "answer"  : "c1",
            "explain" : "Explain 1"
        },
    ...
    ...
    ...

Here content may be a plaintext or HTML which will be Displayed as the Question

options is a list of n str elements which will be Displayed as Options

answer is a str that is in options which is the answer

explain may be a plaintext or HTML which will be Displayed as the Explaination if not possible please set it to a emptystring

Editing media files

In this app you can change the sounds played inside it which will be played after answering the question and when time is up

You can change those sounds by replacing the appropriate audio(mp3) files in the with the same in the Audio/ folder

The Background images can be changed by replacing the appropriate inage (jpg) files in the with the same in the BG/ folder

Note: Please make sure that your images are less than 20KB and you audio files are short too

Usage

In This part let us go through the gui part of the application. There are 4 screens in total.
    -Welcome
    -Teams
    -GeneralRules
    -App
Note: This is a one way app if the next screen is reched there is no way back

Welcome

Click on Start Quiz to continue

Teams

Here enter the members of each teams and hit Done to continue

General Rules

Click on the GOT IT!!! to continue

App

This is the screen you will use to conduct the QUIZ

click on Start Round to set scorings appropriate to cuurent round

Then use the navigator in the right side to move to the desired question

after moving to the question, you can start the timer by clicking the Start Timer Button and Check if the answer is right using Check Answer Button after clicking it

dragging from the bottom to top you can open explaination for each question and doing it from the bottom of the app you can see the scores of individual teams

using the top bar the scores are given manually by the hosts

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Focus more on the content not on the boring prelim works!!!

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TOOLS

website: Use this free online HTML Editor

In addtion to the above tool use the Tools/Html_edit.py* to format the html to work

For this paste the HTML in the Tools/text.txt file and save it, Then run the above mentioned file.

Then you will be all set to add it to the Json

*HAPPY QUIZING

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