ncsatranscriptor 0.0.1

A simple string transcriptor for a code interview

README

What is this repository for?

• This repository contains a single package and calling script which answers a pre-screening code question for NCSA's Senior Research Software Engineer position
• Version 0.0.1
• Question - as written:

4. Write a program in any programming language to do the following:
   a. Replace all the vowels in the string “National Center for Supercomputing Applications” by their corresponding order number in alphabetical sequence (a with 1, e with 5, etc).
   b. Print the resulting string.
   c. Print the total number of consonants in the given string.

• I have treated part C as, when referring to the "given" string, referring to this string: “National Center for Supercomputing Applications”

Set-up, Installation, Execution

• Summary of set up
  • This repository can be installed via local command lines by executing this command from the root of the repository:

python -m pip install .

• Configuration
  • the simple package ncsatranscriptor must be installed prior to running the transcribe-string.py script
• Dependencies
  • Python 3.12
• How to run tests
  • From the root directory of the respository:

python .\src\ncsatranscriptor\tests\test_ncsatranscriptor.py

• Get guidance on code execution

python .\bin\transcribe-string.py --help

• Execute the script to generate the required output by question 4, above:

python .\bin\transcribe-string.py -s "National Center for Supercomputing Applications" -m basic

Author

• Henry Priest - contact [e-mail]

Links

https://bitbucket.org/uiuc-code/prescreen-transcriptor/