Tournament Planner

The Tournament Planner is a Python module which keeps track of players participating in a Swiss system tournament and is a project of Udacity's full stack developer nanodegree. It is based on a PostgreSQL database to store and retrieve the player stats and the results of their matches.

Quick Start

1. Clone this repo.
2. Get the Vagrantfile from the [fullstack-nanodegree-vm repository] (https://github.com/udacity/fullstack-nanodegree-vm).
3. Install and run a Vagrant VM with the Vagrantfile.
4. Configure the home directory of your VM to be able to run the Tournament Planner code.
5. Using psql create a database called tournament.
6. Create the tables and views by running tournament.sql.
7. Now everything is set up to import and use the code from tournament.py.

Documentation

There is also some testing code included in tournament_test.py (also for the extra features) which can be run to validate the installation and configuration of the Tournament Planner.

A typical usage of the Tournament Planner might be as follows:

• Start a new tournament by re-initializing the database with deleteMatches() and deletePlayers().
• Register new players with registerPlayer().
• Retrieve the current player stats with playerStandings().
• Record the results of every round with reportMatch().
• Get the player pairings for the next round with swissPairings().

Creator

Philip Taferner

• [Google+] (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PhilipTaferner/posts)