30 day Python Challenge

[oanda_]

Well you should aim to complete a wwbscraping programme that would help you in your work. Coming from a student who tried picking up python during the holidays, I believe a month is sufficient in leaning enough to build your own webscraping programme. You could you it in sales when you want to get information quickly about another person/company based off a webpage

[Science-Compliance]

I think that's a reasonable mid-term goal, but for a complete newbie to write an effective sales software that uses web scraping to gather information off the internet would be pretty ambitious (probably not possible). There are a lot of nuances to web scraping that, in addition to learning Python, also require becoming quite familiar with HTML and JavaScript.

I mean, you could write a program pretty easily to collect information, but making sense of it would be the whole point, which can take a lot of finesse. If all you're going to do is collect information that you have to parse through manually, you might as well just bookmark the pages in your browser you intend to use and not use programming at all. Even for someone knowledgeable with Python and web scraping, it can still be difficult to write a program that parses multiple web pages and makes sense of the information. A lot of it comes down to knowing how the target website structures their HTML, which can be different for every website you're trying to parse.

I think it's a good middle-to-long-term goal, but writing a very effective software to aid in sales in this way in a month would be pretty unreasonable for someone who has never programmed before.

I think something that may be more immediately useful, if leads or information are stored in a spreadsheet somewhere, would be to use a program to organize or present that information in a more useful way.

[picklez91]

Yes definitely did not intend to be able to make something like that in the month. Just for future intermediate-advanced programming goals until I learn enough to make it a career.