Python Study Projects

This repository contains small Python study projects and practice apps. Each folder is a self-contained exercise in solving a problem, building a simple UI, interacting with websites or APIs, or creating a small desktop/web app.

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Project Categories

Games

Project	Description	Technologies
Snake Game	Classic Snake arcade game with score tracking and persistent high score	turtle
Pong Game	Two-player Pong with collision detection and scoring	turtle
Turtle Crossing	Frogger-style obstacle avoidance game with increasing difficulty	turtle
Turtle Race	Randomized turtle racing simulation with user betting	turtle
US State Guessing Game	Geography quiz to place all 50 states on a blank map	turtle, pandas
Quizzler App	Multiple-choice quiz app using trivia API data	tkinter, Open Trivia API

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GUI Applications

Project	Description	Technologies
Password Manager	Password generator and storage helper with search and clipboard support	tkinter, pyperclip, json
Flash Card	French vocabulary flashcard app with auto-flip and progress tracking	tkinter, pandas
Pomodoro Timer	Study timer implementing the Pomodoro technique with work/break cycles	tkinter

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Automation & Bots

Project	Description	Technologies
Gym Auto Booking	Selenium bot that books gym classes automatically and retries waitlists	selenium
Twitter Complain Bot	Internet speed check and Twitter complaint poster	selenium
Birthday Wisher	Automatically sends birthday emails to contacts from a CSV file	smtplib, pandas
Bot Automation	Selenium practice script for automating web interactions and searching Wikipedia	selenium

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Web & API Projects

Project	Description	Technologies
Flight Deals	Finds cheap flights and records results to a Google Sheet	requests, Kiwi.com API, Google Sheets API
Stock News	Monitors stock price swings and sends news alert notifications	requests, Alpha Vantage, NewsAPI, Twilio
Rain Alert	Weather forecast checker that warns if rain is expected	requests, OpenWeatherMap API
ISS Overhead	Email alert when the ISS passes overhead at night	requests, smtplib
Amazon Price Tracker	Scrapes Amazon product pages and notifies when the price drops	requests, BeautifulSoup, smtplib
Habit Tracker	Tracks daily habits with Pixela API graphing	requests, Pixela API
Hello Flask	Flask web app examples, including a number guessing game	Flask

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Data & Scripting

Project	Description	Technologies
CSV Read/Write	Reads and processes CSV datasets like weather and squirrel census data	pandas, numpy
NATO Alphabet	Converts text to NATO phonetic alphabet code words	pandas

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Study Scripts & Experiments

File	Description
beatiful_soup.py	BeautifulSoup web scraping examples
turle_draw.py	Turtle graphics drawing with keyboard control
turtle_race.py	Simple turtle race simulation
Other_Tkinter_Widgets.py	Tkinter widget experiments and examples
main.py	General Python practice script
pandas_study.py	Pandas learning and data manipulation examples

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Notes

• coverage/ contains coverage analysis outputs and is not a standalone app.
• Some projects require API keys, email credentials, or web driver setup. Inspect the project main.py or folder files for configuration details.

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Tech Stack

• GUI: tkinter, turtle
• Web scraping: BeautifulSoup, requests, selenium
• Data: pandas, numpy
• APIs: OpenWeatherMap, Alpha Vantage, NewsAPI, Kiwi.com, Google Sheets, Twilio, Pixela, Open Trivia
• Email / notifications: smtplib, Twilio SMS
• Web: Flask

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Setup

Most projects use environment variables or a config.py for credentials. Check each project before running.

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt  # if present, otherwise install needed packages manually