Learned web scraping with Python and used it to developed an Amazon price tracker that scrapes the price off a product page and if the price is lower or equal to the target price set, it sends an email with the new price and a link to buy it.
Amazon normally refuses to send information to unknown connections but you can easily pass a header into it to make it think it's being accessed by a normal web browser and not a bot.
I'm doing an intro to programming bootcamp next month!
Learning how to create a web server in Python using a framework called Flask. It operates as a full web server. It waits for user connections and renders the HTML/CS starting from a template file and Python code.
Not a coder but I tutored my roommate in their coding classes.
Started with Assembler, then PL/1, SAS, FOCUS, IDEAL. Some BASIC, Fortran, COBOL. Used both hierarchical and relational databases.
I know how to type and use Google ...
Learned how to create, read from, add, modify, and delete data from a database file. It was about 7 hour project today. They say coding consists mostly of pasting error messages into Google.
This is an interesting site. https://plaintextoffenders.com/
Don't have an account on any of those sites. Today's project was creating a login authentication form using password hashing which is somewhat comparable to encrypting data, however once hashed, it is impossible to retrieve the original data. When you register an account, it generates a hash from the password and stores that hash string. When you log in, it also generates a hash string from the password and if it matches the hash that is on the server, it lets you log in.
Recently started a few online tutorials for C#, C++, C, PHP, Python, and Ruby. C and C++ really made me miss and appreciate certain things in Java. 😅 Haven't gone too far in depth on them yet. Trying to finish a certificate for Java first, then I'll dive deeper into those.
After a few round of pulling out my hair, I was finally able to get a blog website working. Only the site admin has access to add and delete blogs. Any logged in user can comment on blogs.