Elevator

Elevator simulator written in Python. In order to learn how to progress through this program, go to the how-to document.

Requirements

• Python 3.8.5 (I use pyenv to manage different version)

Prerequisites

• You will need to install virtualenv if yet not present in your packages. Command: pip install virtualenv.
• Install dependencies by running.

virtualenv venv
venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run the program?

• Run venv/bin/python run.py in the root directory

How to run tests?

• Run ./venv/bin/python -m pytest in the root directory

In the pipeline

• Enhance test coverage
• Enhance error types (better type chosen, custom types)
• Add integration tests for the program itself
• More scenarios
• Find a better way to progress through program time (better than return from next method)
• More / better input commands
• Provide better, better abstractions for actions like self.elevator.people.remove(person)
• Provide more user friendly and robust running scripts
• Find a better, more robust way to address counting of instances (issues in scenario elevator numbers)
• Remove some of the bugs for printed statements
• Provide a visual representation of the program instead of verbal
• Make computation more functional and state changes more abstract

Learnings

• This elevator is more complicated problem than initially considered
• Learned some new parts of python vocabularies like 'OrderedDict'
• Got a better understanding of abstractions
• Putting more effort into planing before starting to code pays back
• Considered a controller class from the start would be a better and more efficient way of progress
• It is important to specify your task instructions in a best way possible