Newspaper-Bill-Calculator-v2
App that calculates your monthly newspaper bill (by eccentricOrange)
npbc
This app calculates your monthly newspaper bill, given the cost of each paper per weekday. (by eccentricOrange)
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3.7 | 4.3 | |
about 2 years ago | 4 months ago | |
LabVIEW | Python | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Newspaper-Bill-Calculator-v2
Posts with mentions or reviews of Newspaper-Bill-Calculator-v2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-09.
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I don’t know where to go from here
later on, I began a project to calculate our monthly newspaper bill (https://github.com/eccentricOrange/Newspaper-Bill-Calculator-v2, archived) and it forced me to think and learn a lot about things like the structure of the project, file I/O, UX etc. all real-world skills (and that happened because the project was going to be used by real-world people)
- Do you make your code clean (refactor) after you finished a project or while writing the code?
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Please help me review a CLI application that I've written
The other important goal was to be a testbed for learning a bunch of new tools: more Python libraries, SQL connectors, GitHub Actions (CI/CD, if I understand correctly), unit tests, CLI libraries, type-hinting, regex. I had earlier built this on a different platform, so I now have a solid idea of how this application is used.
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How did you guys and gals read the books?
For the past four years, I've maintained an application that is useful to my family. I learnt a lot about UI/UX, LabVIEW, and file I/O with this. Now, I'm rewriting and expanding it with Python, and using it as an opportunity to learn about: database connectors, HTML/CSS/JS trio and stuff like Flask, APIs, CLIs, CI/CD etc. This approach works well too.
npbc
Posts with mentions or reviews of npbc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-19.
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Can programming be a hobby? What can I do with it?
Well, there will probably be problems in your life that have a programming solution. For example, we subscribe to something like 5 newspapers billed monthly but with different prices per paper per weekday. We verify the vendor's calculations and it's bit of a chore. Perfect thing to automate with a script!
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How often do you use libraries ?
Another good example is command line arguments. I got started with argv and argc and wrote a rudimentary application with that. At some point I decided to migrate it to Python, and continued to use sys.argv there. Now, we (family) rely on that application, and I use argparse (Python) most of the time. In the context of this application, I'm currently learning about deployment and distribution (hence you'll find my makeshift "installation" instructions in the README). Once I figure that out, I'll switch to a existing tried and tested system.
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I don’t know where to go from here
I'm currently on a new version of the newspaper bill calculator (https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc) and it's still teaching me tons (more file i/o, good/bad practices, databases, regex, CI/CD, different kinds of UI like CLIs etc etc)...
- Do you make your code clean (refactor) after you finished a project or while writing the code?
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How do you structure the writing of a program >200 lines?
The primary purpose of this project is for me to learn to use Flask. It usually takes me 4-5 ~rewrites~ revisions of a project to make it have some structure, and this one is only in v2. I've also had to learn a lot of stuff (Flask, virtually all of JS, some 80% of the CSS, the whole concept of a front- and back-end being split between a CLI and a browser, datetime module), so it's been somewhat tough to build as well. I don't always code like this.
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Pytest is failing on GitHub Actions but succeeds locally
The full codebase is available. At this point, I've completed most of the changes I need to make to the actual code, and push it to GitHub. https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc/tree/5c529dacbef0f9a1f8915a49dcca47834204aa09
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Please help me review a CLI application that I've written
Link: https://github.com/eccentricOrange/npbc/tree/efd5f37b82a42437a9ed0d61d20a8455dce6f0e0
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Is requesting a review appropriate here?
This post is not a request for review, but if you want to get a sense of the size/number of files, here is a GitHub repo at a specific commit (so that all discussion is consistent). Is it okay to make a post requesting a review of this code? If not, do you know a place I could request someone to take a look?
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I want to learn programming but keep giving up too quickly
Make sure that the "complex" problem you're solving is the same as your end goal. That's my main motivator: if I need an app to calculate newspaper bills, I need it. Learning about OOP (for example) outside of a problem where I really benefit from having it doesn't work so well for me.
What are some alternatives?
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lab-flask-tdd - NYU DevOps lab on Test Driven Development
lab-flask-bdd - NYU DevOps lab on Behavior Driven Development with Flask and Behave
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processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)
SQLite - Official Git mirror of the SQLite source tree
pyenv-installer - This tool is used to install `pyenv` and friends.
p5.js - p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —