Completion Dates for Modules / Problems

[bqi343]

Like USACO Training?

[bqi343]

a calendar of some sort to help us track our daily USACO practice ?

[thecodingwizard]

github contribution style maybe? or stopstalk-ish?

[bqi343]

Can we take this off the backlog? Would definitely be useful for retaining users.

[thecodingwizard]

does this mean I actually have to think about how to implement it D:

[thecodingwizard]

@bqi343 what counts as an "activity" (the things that count towards the colored blocks)? Just completing modules / completing problems, or does "practicing" a module count as well?

[bqi343]

Oops I didn't mean to self-assign.

Completing modules (read through it for the first time) / completing problems would make sense.

[thecodingwizard]

ok so:

• module progress changing to "Practicing" or "Complete" for the first time = +1
  • If set to practicing, then changed to complete later, it only counts towards practicing the first time
• problem progress changed to "Complete" = +1

Also, separately:

• each pageview = +1

Does this work?

[bqi343]

Sure. Why pageviews though? (Do you mean +1 if visited on a certain day?)

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard I'm kind of confused, how does this pertain to module dates?

[thecodingwizard]

idk, pageviews seems nice (and also rewards dumb people like me who can't always solve one problem a day D:)

also it's fairly easy to implement I think

[thecodingwizard]

@thecodingwizard I'm kind of confused, how does this pertain to module dates?

when designing dates we should also design it in a way that allows github contribution style visualization...

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard Ohh ok, your right it doesn't seem too hard to implement.

[thecodingwizard]

https://github.com/frappe/charts charts :heart:

[MrinallU]

Yo thats cool

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard Using the charts we can make a whole page for user stats

[thecodingwizard]

okay I have an idea for how to implement module / problem activity:

• Make a giant list of user "activities"
• Every time the user changes module status or problem status, append to user activities list
  • Include type of activity, timestamp, activity payload (module/problem ID + what the new status is)
• When making the chart, somehow make a list of timestamps that count (for example, if the user sets status to practicing and then back to not started, that shouldn't count)

Assuming the user doesn't randomly toggle problem / module status too frequently, this should be okay...

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard And one would store the list in firebase?

[thecodingwizard]

yes

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard Makes sense, if you want me to do it and refer back to you for guidance or if you want to do it yourself I'm fine either way.

[thecodingwizard]

I'll just do it myself since it seems a bit complicated.

Also, I realized that a singular list of activities doesn't work very well with our current setup, so I'm thinking of just splitting it into two lists; one for problems, one for modules.

We should really figure out a good backend database soon oops

[MrinallU]

@thecodingwizard I have experience with MySQL so let me know if you need help to refactor to a SQL style database.

[thecodingwizard]

I'll close this for now since Dashboard -> Activity sort of does this. If someone has an idea for where else we should put module/progress completion, feel free to reopen