Programming

Stand-alone app with PyInstaller

Stand-alone app with PyInstaller

Last post I’ve build a GUI calculator from an online class and added some extra functions to it. This post I’ll be creating the app as a stand-alone app for Mac and one for Windows. I’m using PyInstaller to do this, this is a stand-alone app you use in the command...

GUI Python Calculator with Tkinter

GUI Python Calculator with Tkinter

This project started with me wanting to learn a way to make an app in Python with a Graphic User Interface (GUI). GUI is what people are used to seeing when working with a computer. The previous scripts I have done in Python have all been command line interface where...

Archive Project part 2 – The Program

Archive Project part 2 – The Program

The second part of the archive project See Post 1 about the Mac OS side of the fixes here and for the purpose of this project. What the program needs to do: The program is to add extensions to the files that need them and clean out the files that don’t need to be...

Archive Project part 1

Archive Project part 1

The issue that came up was when I went back to an old CD archive to pull an old Business card I worked for somebody, they needed some updates. I noticed that the Mac wouldn’t read the disc or the next 2 I tried. In research found that the current Mac OS doesn’t...

Python pull email addresses to CSV file

Python pull email addresses to CSV file

Another practicing Python project the original idea for this project came when I heard somebody talk about their email program got updated and all their contacts disappeared. First thought they would need to go through and add their contacts back. Then thought how...

Random name picker

Random name picker

The idea of this Python project comes from who gets to go first or what order do a group of people go in. Think of kids getting ready to play a game and need to decide who goes first and what order they go in. They might do something like pull a card from a deck or...

Python updating a large number of files

Python updating a large number of files

While trying to get more practice with Python I look for projects or find things and think how could I do this as a program. They might not be the most exciting or useful but they help in learning more elements to Python. They also help me build up a coding library so...

Python Certificate

Python Certificate

Earned certification from Free Code Camp on Scientific Computing with Python. This involved going through lessons and creating 5 Python programs: Arithmetic Formatter: https://replit.com/@amacher/boilerplate-arithmetic-formatter-1 Time Calculator:...

Super simple calculator in JavaScript

Super simple calculator in JavaScript

Working on a JavaScript idea a simple calculator, as a weekend project, that took a little over a week, I used this post on FreeCodeCamp for the inspiration and help in working through the app. I created this calculator as an MVP (Minimal Viable Product), a way to get...

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

As we seen in the above cartoon there can be some confusion over what is ‘the cloud’ and how it works. Such as how Bob, the slightly balding manager in the cartoon, thought the data was up in an actual cloud. I’ve wrote up a basic description of what is ‘the cloud’....

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification

JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures Certification

Earned certification from Free Code Camp on JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures. This involved going through about 300 hours of interactive lessons (write code into their program that checks if it's correct) and creating 5 JavaScript programs: Palindrome...

Roman number converter

Roman number converter

While finishing up the JavaScript lessons in Free Code Camp we had to build a Roman numeral converter to take a number from 1 to 3999* and convert it to the Roman numerals. Spending some time with it I thought this would be a good program to create a web app. I...

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