interview-exercise

Tucows Interview Exercise

Instructions

• Please create a fork of this repo in which you will attempt the exercise.
• Create a new branch in the fork of this repo to attempt the exercise in, when you are done open a PR from that branch onto the main branch.
• In a file called setup.md please include instructions on how to run and test you application
• Please use Python, GO or .NET for your solutions

Tasks

• Create a small web app that displays an HTML page containing a random quote, and random picture from the two APIs below.
• Create a back-end CLI tool to do the same
• How can you return an image on cli?
• (Optional) Add an option to both the CLI, and web app so a category (“key” in the API) can optionally be specified for the quote. (sane/working default if not specified)
• Add an option to both the CLI, and web app to allow specifying a grayscale image
• (Optional) Make it resilient to one or both providers being unavailable

APIs to be Used

• http://forismatic.com/en/api/
• https://picsum.photos/