There are two main projects that I have worked on in the past that really helped me further my programming knowledge. Both helped me dive deeper into the world of programming and how to leverage existing technologies to build something new and robust.
The School Off Calculator is an application that leverages weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API and historical data to determine whether there will be a school closure the next day. Weather data from the API is compared to historical data on school closures due to weather, the application performs calculations, and finally makes a prediction for the user.
The Amazon Discord Bot is a chatbot that helps users in a Discord channel shop for items on Amazon straight from the channel. It uses event listeners to actively monitor the chat, executing its function when a user enters the designated keyword and Amazon item to query. It leverages collections such as the Discord API for the Discord bot, Python's Request library for sending/receiving HTTP requests/responses, and BeautifulSoup to organize and extract data from the HTML responses.