The Vehicles exercise consists of a sample command line application written using Python (3.13) and SQL (duckdb). The code pretends to be a command line utility which can be used to query the data about vehicle registrations.
To execute the exercise code you will need:
- Python 3.13+
- Poetry package manager 2.1+
- git optionally with your favourite git client.
All the required software is free, and will run on any major, up-to-date operating systems including Linux, MacOS, Windows. If you don't have it, go and install it.
To prepare for the exercise:
- Clone the repository
- Activate poetry environment
- install the dependencies by executing
poetry syncorpoetry install - Execute
python vehiclesto test if you are ready to start the exercise. It should return a line of text starting with 'Congratulations!'. You will need to send the full line to the recruiters to go to the next step.
If you see the text, consider reviewing the code. If not, below are some troubleshooting ideas.
If you have cloned the repository and have problems starting:
- Check you are inside the cloned repository.
- Check you have activated the poetry environment.
- Check you have installed the dependencies.
- If the
python vehiclesdoesn't work, trypython3 vehicles.
vehicles/__main__.pyis where the CLI behaviour is implemented. The entry point,main()can be found there.vehicles/model.pydefines the domain model.vehicles/data.pyoffers functions to query the data.vehicles/data/*.csvtest data in CSV format - this is made up, not real data.vehicles/__init__.pyloads the data from the CSV files into duckdb memory.
The tasks are currently not public as they are used during interviews. If you have been sent this repository because you are going through the interview familiarise yourself with the code as you will be asked to work with it.
Once the exercise is no longer used for interviewing, we will publish the tasks so that the exercise can be used independently to practice your coding skills.