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Posted by Derick Moncado
Derick Moncado
23,259 Points

Can anyone give me some insight on how to start this Github project?

Here is a forked Github project that a potential employer has sent me to complete as a skill exercise. The goal of this project is to take this hardcoded HTML site, and make it hit an API for showing/listing user and widget information. Simple right? I'm lost! I think I just need a little push. I'm not sure how to get started and retrieve the data from the endpoint URLs in the readme.md! All of the instructions are in the readme actually... Can anyone take a look and help me out? I planned on tackling this with JS and AJAX/JSON. Please help! I'd really like to potentially get this job! Thanks TH community!

Project: https://github.com/dmoncado/widgets-spa

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

I'm surprised they didn't require you to sign a statement certifying you completed the task without assistance. Any pre-employment skill assessment I've ever had either had that requirement, or even more often I was required to complete the task on their premises.

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Well, since this is for a job opportunity, I don't think it's fair to your potential employer to do too much of this work for you , since it wouldn't be beneficial to you or them, as they're specifically testing your skill level, but if you want to teach yourself to do this, I'm all for that route.

And I think if you first did this: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-simple-dynamic-site-with-nodejs you would be well on your way to accomplishing the test the employer has asked you to do.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.