diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e99e36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.pyc
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d04fe03..f3c4c96 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
 # Geek-Jokes
 
 ## A Flask RESTful API to get random geek jokes
+
+## Start Up Commands
+```bash
+$ pip install -r requirements.txt
+$ export FLASK_APP=app.py
+$ export FLASK_DEBUG=1
+$ flask run
+```
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diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index 30b57e3..ffcff53 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -1,37 +1,26 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from flask import Flask
 from flask_restful import Resource, Api
+
 import joke
 import sys
 
-
 app = Flask(__name__)
 api = Api(app)
 
 
-
-reload(sys)
-sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
-
-class APP(Resource):
+class App(Resource):
     def get(self):
         return {'this is soon to become an awesome->': 'website'}
 
-    def post(self):
-        jk = joke.getJoke()
-        jk = jk.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
-        #jk = jk.encode('utf-8')
-        return jk
 
-class API(Resource):
+class Api(Resource):
     def get(self):
-        jk = joke.getJoke()
-        jk = jk.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
-        # jk = jk.encode('utf-8')
-        return jk
+        return joke.get_joke().encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
+
 
-api.add_resource(APP, '/')
-api.add_resource(API, '/api')
+api.add_resource(App, '/')
+api.add_resource(Api, '/api')
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     app.run(debug=True)
diff --git a/joke.py b/joke.py
index 644ef7e..74dc5de 100644
--- a/joke.py
+++ b/joke.py
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 import json
-from random import *
+import random
 
-def random_digits():
-    range_start = 1
-    range_end = 545
-    return randint(range_start, range_end)
-def getJoke():
+
+def random_digits(item_count):
+    return random.randint(0, item_count)
+
+
+def get_joke():
     with open('data.json') as data_file:
         data = json.load(data_file)
-    joke = data[random_digits()]
-    print joke
-    return joke
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+    return data[random_digits(len(data))]