P3 - Personal Porting Project

A personal project exploring different Programming Languages to implement a small program that does 8 things:

• Open a File
• Read File contents
• Put contents into an Array/List/Vector
• Select N number of items from Array/List/Vector at Random
• Generate a String from concatenating the Randomly selecting items
• Host a Web application
• Create JSON object using Generated String
• Return JSON object on GET requests

Goals

• Learn various Programming Languages to gauge Appropriate Use of them
• Learn different Programming Techniques
• Increase knowledge of Docker
• Test and Document Performance of Programming Languages

Areas to Explore

• Add more Programming Languages
• Add Tests
• Add HTML and CSS to create a UI
• Document and Host on various Platforms - AWS, Heroku, etc.
• Minimise Docker Images

Run the applications

docker-compose up -d

Then visit localhost/{language} in a Browser.

Stop the applications

docker-compose down