When you're ready to submit your work back to us you have a couple of options. Pick whichever works for you.

1. Clone this repo onto your own GitHub account and send us a link
2. Send us a pull request
3. Send us the full solution as a .zip file via email

Do whatever you're comfortable with. You won't "lose points" by going with the "email a zip file" approach, if that's what works for you :)

This project requires the following:

1. Visual Studio 2019 (Community Edition should be fine)
2. SQL Server Express LocalDb (any SQL database should work, you'll just have to modify the web.config connection string if you don't use LocalDb)

If you already have a machine with those tools on it, you should be able to open this solution, run the database migration (see below), and be good to go.

If you do NOT already have a machine with those tools, you can either install them or you can download a development VM from Microsoft. These VMs come with all of the tools you'll need pre-installed but typically expire after a month or two.

To get started, you need to:

1. Open the Heuristics.TechEval.sln file in Visual Studio
2. Compile the solution (either F6 or Ctrl-Shift-B, depending on your keyboard mappings)
3. Open the Package Manager Console and execute the Update-Database command, which will create and seed a local database
4. Run the app (F5 starts with the debugger attached, Ctrl-F5 starts without a debugger)

Follow the in-app prompts for a list of tasks that you can choose to complete.

REMEMBER: It's OK if you don't know how to do something, and you don't have to complete all of the tasks. The goal is to create a code sample that helps us understand how you think, how you figure things out, and how you can talk about the challenges you face as a programmer.

Go ahead and put your best foot forward with the code, just remember that what really matters will be the discussion we have about the code later.