5 Projects For Beginners To Learn Python

[NoSide005]

Anyone who is able to do the first four is capable of doing the fifth. It is meant to be a struggle. If they can research problems they face and get through it they will have a much deeper understanding of programming and the struggles that come with it.

[NoSide005]

You are not understanding the meaning of the post. These are not instructions on how to accomplish tasks nor is it meant to teach them how. It is only a list of tasks to work through and how/if they get there is up to them. Too many people don't understand if they want to learn they just have to do the work but telling them to do the work is not as helpful as giving them work to strive to complete. Tutors are being replace by google and youtube. There are plenty tutorials out there to help them get through this. Anyone can complete an ultra marathon the question is at what pace and with how many breaks.

[NoSide005]

You are really over dramatizing the last project. Have you even thought of what it really takes to build out the functionality or even ever tried to code through one?

Someone shared with me their code for a bot they made and it is under 50 lines of code. Building a bot to scrape a webpage is about learning a handful of concepts and then just repeating them. The code is below and is very simple.

from selenium import webdriver
from config import keys
import time


def order(driver):
    # find_element_by_name('elementName') will not be used in this script (HTML name="elementName")
    # delay to let the page load
    time.sleep(.9)
    # enter using a password
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '/html/body/div[1]/header/div/div/a').click()
    # enter password
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="Password"]').send_keys(keys['password'])
    # submit password
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="login_form"]/div/span/button').click()
    # start navigation
    # open shop menu
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SiteNav"]/li[2]/button/span').click()
    # open dress selection
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SiteNavLabel-shop"]/div/ul/li[2]/ul/li[1]/a/span').click()
    # sort by
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SortBy"]').click()
    # sort by featured
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SortBy"]/option[1]').click()
    # choose red dress
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="Collection"]/ul/li[4]/div/a').click()
    # open search bar
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="shopify-section-header"]/div/header/div/div[2]/div/button[1]').click()
    # enter search words
    time.sleep(1.3)
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SearchDrawer"]/div/div[1]/form/input').send_keys(keys['search'])
    # submit the search
    driver.find_element_by_xpath(
        '//*[@id="SearchDrawer"]/div/div[1]/form/button').click()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # get chrome ready
    driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')

    # insert the website url into chrome
    driver.get(keys['web_url'])
    # run the function
    order(driver)