1. Make sure you have Python 3.8.7 installed on your machine.
2. Do git clone https://github.com/M4THYOU/waldo_backend.git.
3. Do cd waldo or whatever this project is called to enter the base directory of the project. You're in the right spot if and only if manage.py is in your immediate directory. If not, go to the directory where it is.
4. Run mkvirtualenv venv to make a virtual environment.
5. I think it will automatically enter you into the virtual environment, but run source venv/bin/activate just to make sure.
6. Run python -m pip install -r requirements.txt to install all the required packages for the project.
7. Ask Matthew for the secrets.py file. Put it in the same directory as settings.py. I.e. the path from base of the project is waldo/secrets.py.
8. Run python manage.py runserver to start the server. It should work, you can verify this by going to http://localhost:8000/. If it doesn't work, well just fix what's broken. Use your critical thinking skills for this.

• Create your own dev branch with the following command git checkout -b dev-<you name here>. Obviously, replace <you name here> with your actual name.
• Never ever commit to master branch. Work on the branch above and make a pull request when you want changes to be merged.
• Message Matthew when you make a pull request, and he will merge it in.
• We are using Bootstrap 4.1 as a frontend framework library: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting-started/introduction/

The tensorflow model used for this app can be found here