This month I got to grips with the use of virtual environments and the integration of Git in Visual Studio Code. I also set up the Windows Subsystem for Linux so that I can use Bash.

I put some more work into the GUI data entry automation project - it is now complete and I have built it into a windows executable via pyinstaller.

I also carried on with the MARC 21 automation project, now called the Doc-o-matic. I had thought about building a user interface using Flask but I ultimately decided against this.

Instead, I looked into the Tkinter module to build a GUI - I’m quite pleased with the end result. I also added the option for the MARC 21 records to be merged into a single file after their creation.

The third week of the month consisted of watching tutorials about pygame. At some point I’m hoping to build a simple 2D shmup.

The final week of the month saw a relative decline in Python related activity. With Bitcoin in the news again, I decided to take another look into it. I watched a few lectures by Andreas Antonopoulos and I read through the original white paper - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. It’s super cool stuff.

Here’s a screenshot of the Doc-o-matic GUI -

Doc-o-matic