🔒 NEED HELP WITH IDEAS- MAKING A PROGRAM

[tall veldt]

So for my school finals, i need to make a project. It can be anything. Im going to use python for the most part. Im making a fitness tracker where you can track your calories, steps, workout routines, track your runs and pb's etc etc. But what exactly should i use to make it? Im not making a mobile app, so it should be accessible on a computer. What should i do? Ive got 1 year of experience in programming, but all ive done is just simply coding a bunch of small projects that only involve the terminal lol , so im decent. What GUI's should i use and stuff (e.g tkinter, pygame). Where do i start?

[robust ledge]

@tall veldt

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[storm gazelle]

Since this seems like a pretty standard GUI, I don't think making it in pygame would be worth it. You could use pyqt, which has some pretty nice GUI, or tkinter (the former is prettier, the latter easier)

[nova raptor]

Pair the GUI up with a DB or keep it simple with files if you are new to using DB and you should be good to go

[tall veldt]

Are there any others that exist or in your opinion what would be the best one to use?

[nova raptor]

tkinter if you want simple, qt is just more extensive

[tall veldt]

Im planning on using API's if possible

[storm gazelle]

Tbh I don't know much about GUIs, but those are the 2 big ones so to speak

[tall veldt]

So in my case we're marked based off of code complexity, so would you still recommend tkinter?

[nova raptor]

what does this 'code complexity' mean?

Just how hard or complicated the project is?

[tall veldt]

Not sure thats just whats been told to me

[tall veldt]

Pretty much yh so we dont take any shortcuts

Essential they want to see complex code

For example instead of someone repeatedly writing print hello world, to make it complex they setup a loop

In simple terms

[nova raptor]

I see, well I recommend just sticking with tkinter
qt is bit too complicated to work with for a beginner and i feel its pointless for a school project app unless u want to learn qt along the way

[tall veldt]

Alright is there any other languages i would need to learn because i pretty much only know python

[west pecan]

pyqt6 is sort of complex sometimes

[nova raptor]

Just python should do work as long as we are not interesting in making fancy UI

[tall veldt]

Nope just something basic that does the job

[nova raptor]

Then ur good to go

[tall veldt]

Alright is there anything else i should learn? Any vids you'd recommend for developing something like this

[nova raptor]

Imo, just watch some tkinter tutorials and get started on actually building the app

[tall veldt]

Perfect thankyou so much, tkinter it is

[robust ledge]

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