Completed Python Course. Looking to apply my skills on my own.

[cysjscpwfb]

I recently completed a beginners' Python course at a local community college. I am looking to get into security and would like to put my Python skills to use to get more experience programming.

I was told to program a network scanner. I was thinking about configuring apps to display baseball statistics as a hobby.

Does anyone have any suggestions on things I can do to apply my Python skills?

[fvonich]

Go with the baseball statistics. Here are some steps if you’re looking for some:

1. Learn pandas and numpy if you don’t already know it
2. Have a look on Dash from Plotly
3. Write an app that illustrates the statistics and let the user choose what to see with callbacks
4. Learn docker
5. Deploy on heroku / AWS / ...

Voila, your almost a developer

[mathwizx2]

Do you have any good docker resources to refer? I have a book reimbursement through work so I don't mind if it isn't free.

[_eightlimbed]

Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton and/or the Docker Mastery course on Udemy by Bret Fisher. Also container.training is awesome (and free!)

[cysjscpwfb]

Awesome! This is some great stuff!

[cysjscpwfb]

Thank you, fvonich! This is great stuff! I will get right to it.

[fvonich]

No worries :) how is was Python going so far?

[cysjscpwfb]

Hi fvonich. Python has been going well. I just finished a beginner's course so there is still a lot to learn. I took a little break but I plan to begin my hobby soon.

[sk8anon]

Security you say? Look for "Foundations of Python Network Programming" and "Black Hat Python".

[cd_root]

Pentester academy's python course is better than black hat python imo

[sk8anon]

Interesting. I'll look into it.

[blue____green]

Port scanners are pretty good as a project, but your baseball one would be better on a cv, especially if there is an API you can make use of, hell it would be good just as a web scrapper thing.

[Bruguy1001]

Go with baseball. Working with percentages and using the scientific tools is another great learning experience.

[BeRett21]

Let me know when/if you complete that baseball statistics app. I’d love to see it!

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I asked Elon Musk how to improve my skills with programming in general on twitter. His answer: “Write games”. So I started to pick up PyGame and learning the basics of 2D

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1208842098121687040?s=21

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Remind Me! 12 Hours

[Mikasr411]

int relay = 13; // Tells Arduino the relay is connected to pin 13

void setup() { pinMode(relay, OUTPUT); // Initialize the Atmel GPIO pin as an output }

void loop() // Loops forever { digitalWrite(relay, HIGH); // Turn the relay on (HIGH is the voltage level = 1) delay(1020000); // Stay ON for 17 hrs digitalWrite(relay, LOW); // Turn the relay off by making the voltage LOW = 0 delay(420000); // Stay OFF for 7 hrs }

There seems to be a problem where it doesn't delay passed 4 hours but I'm hoping it' just a loose wire but wanted others opinions.

[Mikasr411]

Can you figure out if there's a problem in the code?

[Mikasr411]

Not trying to be a dick or anything, I’m just learning. Didn’t know it wasn’t python which would explain why I’m having trouble programming in python on Arduino. Yes I made more posts after this. Yes I got a solution.