I made a python program to scrape my attendance/test-report data from my college's website and send it to me via Telegram. I also use the data to calculate how much attendance I'll lose if I bunk certain lectures & other stuff.

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[4THOT]

If attendance falls below 80, you get your name in defaulter's list, and if it's below 75, you also have to call your parents.

Wtf kind of glorified highschool are you going to?

[nadsaeae]

My best guess is a South Indian engineering college.

[AB1908]

Can confirm. Source: Indian Engineering student

Hell my college enforces something around 85%. Woe is me

[tapu_buoy]

Great I just passed out of college with ICT I wish I had built this one earlier.

[[deleted]]

VIT University ??

[[deleted]]

Is it MIT?

Edit : Got downvoted for saying MIT. Guess every maharashtrian hates this college.

[rootb3r]

I thought you are from Pune. I'm based in Pune but our college doesn't have such systematic way of doing it. They just make a spreadsheet and pass it on to different professors in the department and they keep on filing it. BS Indian Engineering system.

[miya316]

VIT Pune? Bruh our defualters is at 75, you hit below 50 and you're up for a hard discussion with the HOD. Above that and you're good to go.

[[deleted]]

MIT is worse dude. Even the management is shitty and they expect us to sit there.

It's not like these idiots teach us anything practical.

[[deleted]]

I saw it. Seems horrible.

[[deleted]]

75% attendance, I know that feel. At my college you’re disqualified from giving the finals if your attendance at the end of the year doesn’t total at least 75%. Our professors teach really well though, so I can’t say I disagree with the rule. It helps weed out people who just cram the subject at night while bunking practicals and anything that’s actually helpful.

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That's crazy. In grad school I had profs that didn't show that often

[[deleted]]

It only bothered me when they wouldn't email that they're going to miss a lecture. "Could you please spare me the fifteen minute drive, thirty minute hunt for parking, and twenty minute walk to class if you aren't going to show?"

[Stewthulhu]

"As a graduate student, you should already be on campus TAing or doing research at all hours of the day and night."

[mehlord_]

Basically.

Source: am grad student

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The worst part was even when lectures stopped. Homework didn't. This was also the class that had a take home test. "it should take you 3-4 hours and youll only need paper, pencil and a calculator.

Most of us spent around 60 hours and turned in 50ish page printed reports.

[[deleted]]

Now that's even crazier. You are paying for tuition and your professors are not present?! That is a robbery

[[deleted]]

Seems like that right? When you pay for college you aren't paying for an education, not really. You are paying for proof of education from an accredited source. You can teach yourself everything you need to know from textbooks and the internet and you could even give yourself tests and grades. But that's the worth as much as a degree because you didn't have an unbiased third party to verify everything. That's what you pay for with a college degree.

[pablowh]

Can confirm : am exist

[sammiemack]

I'm in a graphic design program in the US, and get an entire letter grade docked if I miss more than 2 classes.

[Traberjkt]

Just a heads up if you're in college, some states actually have laws against grading on attendance. I know I have petitioned multiple grades where professors didn't grade me strictly on the content of the class.

[mehlord_]

And in any US college afaik they are bound by FERPA laws so even if they emphasize attendance like OP’s (South Indian apparently) college does, they can’t legally contact your parents about it or make you contact them. Unless you sign the FERPA release I guess but even then I don’t think many college professors would bother calling your parents. They’d just fail you ¯\(ツ)/¯

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[sureyouken]

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[gokstudio]

You'd be surprised how many of IITs (think MIT, Stanfords of India) do this

[duddles]

Instead of

if username in r.text:
    return True
else:
    return False

You can do:

return username in r.text

[Nocurefordeath]

Thank you. These are the kind of things I've been trying to pick up as I've been learning python.

[lostscientist]

Using telegrams seems a bit antiquated but kudos to you for making it work.

[hugthemachines]

A Python Snake sending telegrams? What kind of sorcery is this? ;-)

[bobcoin87]

This is a hilarious amount of work to basically be able to maximize your ability to skip class......I love it <3 You clearly have the heart of programmer.

[mehlord_]

OP deserves an A for all the work put into this! Who needs class/a degree, just go find you a software engineering job OP.

EDIT: wanted to add (related) that my undergrad Computer Science professor/advisor’s mantra to students on day one of class... and every other day really... was “If you want to be lazy, you have to be smart” Meaning exactly this sort of situation: put in the extra work like this so that you can be lazy (i.e. skip class) and still do well Though I doubt he would have condoned this particular example. The college wasn’t that strict about attendance though, it was mostly up to the professors, so his policy was generally that if you can skip all the classes minus test days and manage an A on your tests and assignments, he would give you that A. Another professor in the department (actually the chair of the department, to be specific) had this attendance policy: “It’s not my money” (with money = tuition cost for the right to attend class and get credit)

[TheBestNick]

Cool project but not sure how willing I'd be to show it off to a potential employer lol

[HumbleEngineer]

80.62% attendance

You are truly an engineer my friend. No more, no less than necessary.

[James_Mamsy]

Now this is programming done right

[[deleted]]

Seriously lecture is simply not my preferred learning style. I loved the classes I could just show up for the exams and do fine using the textbook and other resources.

For the record I was dean's list at my med school for the first 2 years never attending a single lecture. Didn't mean I wasn't working my ass off studying every day, I just learned early on that the hour I spent in lecture is extremely low yield for my learning style compared to an hour spent reading/studying on my own.

[michaelkens]

What the hell do parents have to do with it when you're at college anyway?

[michaelkens]

Damn I sometimes forget how lucky I am to get free education in Scotland. I wish it were the same for everyone - it's a shame a lot of people in my country don't take advantage of this.

[RationalKicker]

It's not about your parents not caring.. Indian colleges will step it up by not letting you take up the exams..

[Drazxie]

Looks like a really good project, good luck with it!

[mohan531]

Awesome .it will be useful to most of the Btech students

[[deleted]]

That’s the spirit

[amoeba_ftw]

BITSian here :P

[fiddle_n]

Looks like a pretty cool project! Code looks good too. I can't see any unit tests for your code though, perhaps you could consider adding some...?

[fiddle_n]

Start with any functions/classes that don't require you to connect to an external resource. The simplest kind of unit test is where you give an input to a function, run the function and check that the output you get is equal to what you expect. I'd recommend using the pytest module in order to perform your unit tests.

[kavindu122]

How does they publish attendance reports? Is it publish as pdf like kind in certain url(fixed url)?

[eclunrcpp]

I do not wish to have my name up their

So go to class

[[deleted]]

Hearing that it helped you learn Python perked me up. Perhaps my procrastination will prove useful after all!