Simon has built a question bot that will collect questions on The Coding Train Discord so that Daniel Shiffman can answer them during the following live session.
This is something Simon worked on for days and he was thrilled to be able to present a working bot to Daniel. The only issue that remains unresolved is whether the mods should control the bot via a secret password or should a more advanced security system be developed. Daniel has decided to take a long break from live streaming, so the whole project probably won’t be revived until the streams resume. In any case, as Simon has put it, “I know, it’s messy, but it works. And that’s what’s important to me”.
Simon has also created several other bots (and built a separate Discord playground where other people can test their bots as well). He has been doing quite a lot of server side programming lately.
The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/simon-tiger/Question-Bot
The website is on Heroku: http://questionbot-discord.herokuapp.com/
Simon’s “question-answering round” Discord bot is a clone of CJ (Coding Garden)’s VOX system.
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