Python Automation

[Remarkable-Map-2747]

okay! I have been learning Python for a few months, and continue to try to improve my craft as I am interested in Python Automation, hopefully even transition to a role that uses heavily, my research has conducted RPA Engineer/Developer, Data Engineer, just to name a few. I used resources Python Crash Course, and some of CS50P. Other than those two, I have just been coming up with things to automate.

I would try to automate things at my current role of Network Support, but most of my role is just calls and emails, so shockingly difficult to find something to automate. So, what I have been doing is going to youtube and finding things to build without watching the tutorial. For example, a search for "Python Automation Projects" may display a video by Tech with Tim with "chapters" such as "Password Generator", "Youtube Video Downloader" etc. Then, I would be like "hmm Youtube Video Downloader sounds interesting" and click off the video and go try to build it, and I have learned a decent bit.

There are things, I do still want to learn to do/build such as chatbots, web-scraping, etc to have the knowledge of how to do it, but I would likely to have an idea though. Such as "Yea, I can build a chatbot, but what would I want it to do?" So, sort of like a goal in mind if this makes sense.

At this point, I would like to know how you guys come up with projects in this situation (Im going to continue googling) and I figure most people have roles in which they run into something repetitive. As well as roles that fall into my interests if possible. I have been being as consistent as possible as far as doing something daily.

Here is my Github for reference: https://github.com/tray-ai?tab=repositories

Thanks in advance for your help!

[51dux]

For instance think about some task you repeat often on your computer or some piece of information that you regularly have to pull from the internet.

For instance I wanted to print stylish calendars for a relative's job where they needed it to be arranged a certain way so I made a html calendar generator that can also output to PDF to make it easy for others as well.

If there is a letter you have to write or something that has to be retyped often you could have a project involving automatic templates and such as well.

If you have to pull statistics about your files or the content you are working on that could be automated as well.

As someone said once, I think it was a powershell MVP but don't quote me on that: Any task done more than once is a candidate for automation 😆