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Beginner's guide to Hacktoberfest 2021

Ayushi Rawat — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 06:58:13 +0000

Hi there,

Buckle up folks, Hacktoberfest is round the corner and registrations are now open. Hacktoberfest will be hosted by Digital Ocean for the 8th year in a row in partnership with GitHub and other companies, yes you read it right. In this article, I will share, how to participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 and other important details that you must know before you start contributing.

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1. What is Hacktoberfest?
2. How does it work? 
3. How can you Join?
4. When can you join
5. How to earn a Swag kit?
6. Rules
7. What not to do!
8. FAQs

Let's get started!

What is Hacktoberfest ?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long challenge. It happens every year in the month of October.

If you wish to know about it in detail, you can refer to this video, where I have covered everything.

How does it work?

Maintainers determine if their open-source projects participate.
Quality pull requests submitted on GitHub and GitLab are rewarded.
Engaged maintenance of Hacktoberfest tagged repositories are rewarded.

How can you Join?

Step - 1:

Create a GitHub account, if you don't already have one. Need help? Here are some resources to help you set up your GitHub account:

Step - 2:

Register for Hacktoberfest: Navigate to the Hacktoberfest registration page and follow the instructions. But, read the rules carefully before you do and then sign In using your GitHub credentials.

Step - 3:

Find good projects worth contributing on the GitHub page. You can type label:hactoberfest is:issue is:open

You can add a language label of your choice to filter open issues. If you are a beginner and can’t find good issues then there’s tag label:good first issue which filters out issues for beginners who want to contribute.

Here's something beginner-friendly for you:

Step - 4:

Submit PRs: Try and submit at least 4 PRs and wait for it to be verified. Make sure to submit quality PRs.

When can you join

Registrations are now open but you can sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31 in any time zone. Just be sure to sign up on the official Hacktoberfest website for your pull requests to count.

How to earn a Swag kit:

For your PR to count it must be:

Submitted in a public repo, AND the PR is labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted by a maintainer. or
Submitted in a repo labelled 'hacktoberfest' , AND Merged, OR Approved

Also,

You can opt not to receive a t-shirt and stickers and you can choose to have a tree planted in your name and help make Hacktoberfest 2021 more carbon neutral.

Let's have a look at my swag kit from Hacktoberfest 2020. you get some awesome goodies which include A limited-edition T-shirt for **FREE!** and some stickers.

T-shirts are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to the first 55,000 participants who successfully completed the Hacktoberfest challenge. You will be receiving mail when you have completed the challenge. Further details will be provided with the mail itself.

In past years, shirts have arrived in December or January, depending on how far you live from San Francisco. The Digital Ocean team should eventually contact you asking for your shirt size and shipping address. (Keep in mind they are shipping thousands of shirts so this process will take a while.)

Don’t miss this opportunity. Start contributing to open source and get a limited edition T-shirt for Free!

Refer Hackoberfest wesbite for more

Got anything to add? mention in the comment box below and I will update the list.

Rules

Pull requests can be submitted to any opted-in repository on GitHub or GitLab.
The pull request must contain commits you made yourself.
If a maintainer reports your pull request as 'spam' or 'invalid', it will not be counted toward your participation in Hacktoberfest.
If a maintainer reports behaviour that’s not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate.
To get a shirt, you must make four approved pull requests (PRs) on opted-in projects between October 1-31 in any time zone.
This year, the first 55,000 participants can earn a T-shirt.

What not to do!

In line with Hacktoberfest value “quantity is fun, quality is key”, here are examples of the PRs that we consider to be low-quality contributions (which are discouraged):

PRs that are automated (e.g. scripted opening PRs to remove whitespace/optimize images)
PRs that are disruptive (e.g. taking someone else’s branch/commits and making a PR)
PRs that are regarded by a project maintainer as a hindrance vs. helping
Something that’s clearly an attempt to simply +1 your PR count for October
Last but not least, one PR to fix a typo is fine. 5 PRs to remove stray whitespace… it’s not.

Pro tip:

You can join the Hacktoberfest discord server to connect with the community and network with other open-source enthusiasts, ask questions and find projects. click the link to navigate to the server.

FAQs

Let's look at some FAQs:

Q.*What if my pull requests aren’t accepted*?

A: Even if your pull requests aren’t accepted, as long as you open at least 4 pull requests, you’ll earn the shirt.

Have more FAQs unanswered, check the FAQ section for the same. FAQs are divided into 6 categories:

General
Rules
Events
Maintainers
Swag & Shipping
Troubleshooting

You can also check out the list of ongoing events of Hacktoberfest 2021.

Interested to hear about my Hacktoberfest experience of 2020? You wouldn't wanna miss it, so. stay tuned for my upcoming blog.

That's all for this article and with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful. Thank you for reading, If you have reached so far, please like the article, It will encourage me to write more such articles. Do share your valuable suggestions, I appreciate your honest feedback!

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What is Hacktoberfest? Hacktoberfest 101

Ayushi Rawat — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 05:00:50 +0000

Hello reader!

Well, Hacktoberfest is something, you are gonna hear a lot about in the coming month.

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

Hacktoberfest will be hosted by Digital Ocean for the 8th year in a row in partnership with GitHub and other companies, yes you read it right. What I personally love about it is that it bring developers with the same mindset together from all over the world.

So, what is Hacktoberfest after all? We will learn all about it in the next few minutes.

What will be covered in this Blog

1. What is Open Source?
2. What is Hacktoberfest?
3. Who can Join?
4. PERKS of participating
5. Global Stats for Hacktoberfest 2020

Let's get started!

What is Open Source?

According to Wikipedia,

Open-source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.

When some source code is made Open source, it includes permission to use, modify, contribute to the existing source code. The use of the term originated with the software but has expanded beyond the software sector to collaboration and contribution.

Open-source projects that are hosted in public repositories benefit from contributions made by the broader developer community and are typically managed through Git.

Now that you have a basic idea about Open Source, we can talk about Hacktoberfest.

What is Hacktoberfest ?

Hacktoberfest is a month-long challenge. It happens every year in the month of October.

Hacktoberfest is open to everyone and it marks the celebration of Open Source. It's the biggest Open Source event that encourages newbies to participate in Open Source and create their 1st meaningful PR. Hacktoberfest encourages participation in giving back to the open-source community by completing pull requests, participating in events, and donating to open source projects.
Also, all backgrounds and skills levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.

Of course, to participate, you must have a GitHub account first. New to GitHub? Check out my GitHub Blog and Playlist to learn more.

Who can Join?

contributors: Anyone around the globe who desires to help drive the growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to participate.

maintainers: Anyone that runs an open-source project on GitHub or GitLab and desires help from the community to improve their project can join Hacktoberfest.

companies: Encourage people to contribute to your company’s repositories, organize community events, and engage internal employees.

event organizers: Create events to bring people together for mentorship and code collaborations, so even more people around the world help support open source!

Registration opens on September 28th, wondering how to participate and things you must know before participating, well I will cover that in my next blog.

PERKS:

You get to work with seniors from the community.
Be it your 1st PR or 10thth, you will always learn something new.
You get to be a part of the biggest Open Source event.
And of course, the swag kit.

let's have a look at my swag kit from Hacktoberfest 2020. you get some awesome goodies which include A limited-edition T-shirt for **FREE!** and some stickers.

Got anything to add? mention in the comment box below and I will update the list.

In my upcoming blog, I will share, how to participate in Hacktoberfest 2021 and other important details that you must know before contributing.

let's have a look at the Global Stats for Hacktoberfest 2020, shall we?

169, 886 Participants
116, 361 Participating Repositories
135 Represented Countries

Pro tip:

You can join the Hacktoberfest discord server to connect with the community and network with other open-source enthusiasts, ask questions and find projects. click the link to navigate to the server.

Interested to hear about my Hacktoberfest experience of 2020? You wouldn't wanna miss it, so. stay tuned for my upcoming blog.

I would strongly recommend you to Check out the YouTube video of the same and don't forget to subscribe to my Channel. I would love to connect with you at Twitter | LinkedIn.

You should definitely check out my other Blogs:

Resources:

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/

Happy Contributing, See you in my next Blog article, Take care!!

HTTP Status Codes that You must know

Ayushi Rawat — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:18:58 +0000

Hello reader!

Whenever a client sends a request to server, the response always contains a status code. You might not see it always but its returned at every client-server interaction. Well, even if you are not a programmer, you would still know about the 404 Not Found error.

In this blog post we will discuss all about http and its response status codes. Consider this as a small cheat sheet, for your references, every time you encounter one.

What will be covered in this Blog

1. What is HTTP?
2. What is Status code?
3. 1XX - Informational codes
4. 2XX - Success codes
5. 3XX - Redirection codes
6. 4XX - Client error codes 
7. 5XX - Server error codes

Let's get started!

What is HTTP?

HTTP which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. According to the Wikipedia definition:

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

HTTP is a client-server protocol, acts as the foundation of any data exchange on the Web. Each interaction between the client and server is called a message. HTTP messages are requests or responses. Client devices submit HTTP requests to servers, which reply by sending HTTP responses back to the clients.

What is Status code?

At every client request, server responds with a code which helps to communicate the status of the request. It is a quick way to inspect if request was successful or not without investing the response body.

These codes are formed by three numbers indicating the status of a web element. There are basically five standard groups in which status codes are divided and they can be identified by the first digit of the code. They are as follows:

1XX - Informational codes
2XX - Success codes
3XX - Redirection codes
4XX - Client error codes
5XX - Server error codes

Let's have a look at each group briefly and discuss the most common status codes.

1XX - Informational Response

An informational response indicates that the request was received and understood. It is issued on a provisional basis while request processing continues.

100 - Continue: The server has received the request headers and the client should proceed to send the request body. It states that the client request is good and processing.

101 - Switching Protocols: The requester has asked the server to switch protocols and the server has agreed to switch. Basically, the request may involve file operations, requiring a long time to complete the request.

102 - Processing: This code indicates that the server has received and is processing the request, but no response is available yet.

103 - Early Hints: Used to return some response headers before final HTTP message.

2XX - Success

This class of status codes indicates the action requested by the client was received, understood, and accepted.

200 - OK: Standard response for successful HTTP requests. Everything's normal and the requested resource has been returned through the message body.

201 - Created: The request has been fulfilled, resulting in the creation of a new resource and the server has acknowledged it.

202 - Accepted: This code indicates that the server has received and is processing the request, but no response is available yet.

204 - No Content: The server successfully processed the request, and is not returning any content. Generally, the PUT method is used for a 204 response.

3XX - Redirection

This group of status code indicates that the client must take additional action to complete the request.

301 - Moved Permanently: This indicates that the URL has been moved once and for all. This is used to inform the browser that the requested file has been moved and can be used to redirect from a page that is no longer in existence.

305 - Use Proxy: The requested resource is available only through a proxy, the address for which is provided in the response.

307 - Temporary Redirect: In this scenario, the response code indicates that the requested resource has been temporarily moved to another URI. however, future requests should still use the original URI.

4XX - Client errors

This class of status code is intended for situations in which the error seems to have been caused by the client.

400 - Bad Request: The server cannot or will not process the request due to wrong syntax causing an error.

401 - Unauthorized: Response is similar to 403 Forbidden, but specifically for use when authentication is required and has failed or has not yet been provided. The requested file can be protected one.

403 - Forbidden: The request contained valid data and was understood by the server, but the server is refusing action. It's possible that the server might not have permission to share the file with client.

404 - Not Found: The requested resource could not be found or does not exist but may be available in the future.

405 - Method Not Allowed: A request method is not supported for the requested resource; eg, a PUT request on a read-only resource.

414 URI Too Long: The URI provided was too long for the server to process as a result of too much data being encoded as a query-string of a GET request.

429 Too Many Requests: The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time, helps increase the security.

5XX - Server errors

You can encounter server error when the client has raised a valid request, The server failed to fulfil the request.

500 - Internal Server Error: An error message, displayed when an unexpected situation was encountered that does not match any other class errors.

501 - Not Implemented: The server either does not recognize the request method, or it lacks the ability to fulfil the request.

502 - Bad Gateway: The server act as a gateway and received an invalid response from the server while making the request.

503 - Service Unavailable: The server cannot handle the request because it is overloaded or down for maintenance.

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GitHub Copilot: All you need to know

Ayushi Rawat — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 09:44:32 +0000

Hello reader!

Microsoft subsidiary GitHub launched Copilot to power pair programming with AI. In this blog post, I will share all you need to know about it.

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1. What is GitHub Copilot?
2. How does GitHub Copilot work?
3. How good is GitHub Copilot?
4. Does GitHub Copilot write perfect code?
5. Will your private code be shared with other users?
6. Availability
7. How can You contribute?
8. Ownership

Let's get started!

What is GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer. GitHub Copilot is powered by a new AI system developed by OpenAI Codex and is coming soon to Visual Studio Code. It aims to help Programmers code faster. It basically draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions.

OpenAI Codex has a broad knowledge of how people use code and is significantly more capable than GPT-3 in code generation

How does GitHub Copilot work?

It can suggest complete lines of code or entire functions by analyzing how you code. GitHub Copilot can assemble code from user comments and predicts your code by just reading the function name you have declared. It allows you to cycle through alternative suggestions and manually edit the suggested code. It autofill repetitive code, or create unit tests for your methods.

The GitHub Copilot editor extension sends your comments and code to the GitHub Copilot service, which then uses OpenAI Codex to synthesize and suggest code. it actually works by reading through all the open-source code on the GitHub repos worldwide and then collect the data and tries to find the best possible code related to it! It is said to work great with repetitive code patterns so users can let it generate the rest of the code. The AI assistant can also help you learn a new programming language.

How good is GitHub Copilot?

The technology is truly promising.

Copilot helps developers to quickly discover alternative ways to solve problems, write tests, and explore new APIs without having to tediously tailor a search for answers on sites like Stack Overflow and across the internet,

says Friedman.

It said to have been tested against a set of Python functions that have good test coverage in open source repos by blanking out the function bodies and asked GitHub Copilot to fill them in. The model got this right 43% of the time on the first try, and 57% of the time when allowed 10 attempts. And it’s getting smarter all the time.

Does GitHub Copilot write perfect code?

No. GitHub Copilot tries to understand your intent and to generate the best code it can, but the code it suggests may not always work or even make sense. “GitHub Copilot draws context from the code you’re working on, suggesting whole lines or entire functions,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman explained in a blog post introducing the technology. The algorithm consistently improves by recording whether each suggestion is accepted or not.

In order to make the most out of it, it is suggested to divide the code into smaller functions, provide meaningful function names, parameters, and docstrings.

Will your private code be shared with other users?

No. They claim to use telemetry data, including information about which suggestions users accept or reject, to improve the model.

Availability

For now, GitHub Copilot will only be made available to use in Visual Studio Code and the access is limited to a small group of testers. The preview version is available for free. The preview version is already installed by 88,783 coders.

The technical preview works well for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby and Go but the final version will work with a broader set of frameworks and languages. It will be used to learn how people use GitHub Copilot and what it takes to operate it at scale.

How can You contribute?

The best way to contribute is to sign up for the technical preview. Access is limited to a small group of testers during the technical preview of GitHub Copilot, so you can Join the GitHub Copilot waitlist here.

You only need to answer a simple question regarding how often do you use Visual Studio Code, accept the terms and conditions and you are good to go. The number of spots for the technical preview is limited, so sign up today!

GitHub states that the current preview phase is restricted because of the “state-of-the-art AI hardware” required for the project. Once the free preview phase is over, the company plans to build a commercial version, which should be “available as broadly as possible”.

About sharing code snippets on Social media, GitHub says:

Please use #GitHubCopilot when you post so we can see what you produce!

Ownership

GitHub assigns rights to the person writing the code, so the user becomes responsible for the suggestions it generates and code created with Copilot. It belongs to you, and you obtain the sole ownership of the code.

Will GitHub Copilot affect developer jobs?

Copilot autocompletes code snippets, suggests new lines of code, and can even write whole functions based on the description provided. It adapts to the way you write code and helps you complete the work faster. The technology will enable existing engineers to be more productive, reducing manual tasks and helping them focus on interesting work. It only suggests a piece of code, it still needs to be reviewed and tested manually like you normally do with every other code.

It is very interesting to observe how events will now unfold and what the future holds for us but regardless, I do not think that it will replace developer jobs anytime soon. What do you think of this? Share your thoughts in the comment box below.

That's it. And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful and now you can start building some projects with API!

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What is an API? API for beginners

Ayushi Rawat — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 16:14:20 +0000

Hello reader! In this blog post, we will learn about API in plain English.

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog



1.  What is an API?
2.  What is API endpoint?
3.  What are API functionalities?

Let's get started!

What is an API?

API stands for Application Programming Interface. The Wikipedia definition reads:

An API is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software.

In layman's terms, API is a messenger. Let's understand this with a very famous non-programming example.

Say, you visit a restaurant, the waiter presents you with the menu card. You decide what you want to eat. It could be pizza, pasta or fries. The waiter takes down your order and then shares it with the chef. Once your food is ready, he delivers the meal right to you.

This is a very simple process. You do not have to worry about how the food will be prepared or any other thing that takes place inside the kitchen for that matter. Here, the waiter acts as an API. He is the link that establishes connectivity between you and the kitchen.

There are different types of APIs, which we will see in the next blog.

Now. let's look at a real-world example. Whenever you create a new account on an application, you get an option to signup with Facebook or Google. Ever wondered how that works?

Well, Facebook and Google already have your inputs, so instead of performing the tedious task of capturing every user's information and verifying the credentials, the app accesses their database through the API to verify your credentials.

Another very famous example is a weather app. If you want to build one, you cannot physically go and capture the readings from all over the world. Instead, you can use a third-party API to fetch the weather details.

What is API endpoint?:

API sets the rules for communication. You do not know what happens at the backend or how it happens, you just interact with the API interface and get the job done.

In the case of the restaurant example, you do not know the food recipe or anything that goes inside the kitchen, you interact with the waiter and he establishes the connection between you and the kitchen so, in this scenario, the waiter is your API endpoint.

Well, this also opens doors to security theft. So for this very reason API uses API keys to add a protection layer. An API key is used for identification and authorization which is nothing but a security code, used to keep a track of the users. Being said that, not every API has a key.

In order to communicate with systems, there are certain protocols to be followed when using an API endpoint. APIs also have documentation for the same.

API functionalities:

Establishes a connection between computer systems and enables data accessibility.
Allows monitoring users and their activity.
Increased security.
Hide complexity by eliminating the 'How' factor.

That's it. And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful and now you can start building some projects with API!

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Build a Break Scheduler using Python

Ayushi Rawat — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:55:42 +0000

Hello reader!

Working from home is the new normal. and It is a must to ensure a healthy work-life balance. You cannot just grab a laptop and keep working all day long, it will affect your health drastically.

Schedule your breaks, by far the way out. It works out well for me. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a breaks Scheduler. We will see the implementation in Python.

Check out the Repository for Ultimate Resource in python. Drop a star if you find it useful! Got anything to add? Open a PR on the same!

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1.  Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them?
2.  What is webbrowser Module
3.  How to build a simple breaks Scheduler using Python.

Let's get started!

Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them?

Working from home can be a tiring desk job. You need to take care of your mental health. Well you can schedule your breaks to

Take small five minutes break every hour
Drink water frequently.
Stretch your muscles.
Prepare Tea/Coffee or any healthy drink and take a small walk for few minutes.
When you receive a non-work call, again do a little walk and talk.

How do you Utilize and plan your breaks?

Module Used:

webbrowser Module:

The webbrowser module provides a high-level interface to allow displaying Web-based documents to users. Under most circumstances, simply calling the open() function from this module will do the right thing. The script webbrowser can be used as a command-line interface for the module. It accepts a URL as the argument.

If you wish to know more about it, you can refer to webbrowser Module Documentation.

Now that you are familiar with Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them? and have acquired basic knowledge of webbrowser module, we can move forward to the coding section.

Time to Code!

You can find all the code at my GitHub Repository. Drop a star if you find it useful.

In order to access the Python library, we need to import the package into our python script. Use the following command to do so.

import time 
import webbrowser

from random import choice

Now that we have imported the library using the command import requests, let's proceed.

Let's display a welcome message.

print("Initiating the Break Scheduler!")

Let's ask the user to input the number of breaks he wishes to take or since you are running the script for yourself, you can also hardcode the value.

breaks = input('input the number of times you wish to take break today! ')
print(breaks)

#breaks = 2

Now, you can set the break interval according to your need. I am setting the break interval as every hour for now.

gap = 60*60

Initially let's set the counter as zero

counter = 0

Now, let's define the URL, you wish to open in the interval

url = "https://www.youtube.com/c/AyushiRawat"

Let's make use of random module to display a random message at every break interval. Let's store the messages to be displayed in messages for the same.

messages = ["Time for a break!", "Let's take a break!"]

Our resultant data is stored in res. We will make use of the text method to extract our desired weather details and let's display the result.

Now, let's run a while loop until the counter becomes equal to the number of desired breaks.

while(counter < breaks):
    time.sleep(gap)

    #Let's print the break message
    print(choice(messages))

    #opening the browser window.
    webbrowser.open(url)

We will introduce sleep here to schedule the breaks. A random message will be displayed on the screen and the URL will open automatically at every interval.

At last, let's increase the counter by one.

counter += 1

And finally, let's display the termination message when the scripts end.

print("Terminating the Break Scheduler!")

That's it. That all we have to do to build a simple break scheduler. And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Share in the comments below.

Thank you for reading, If you have reached so far, please like the article, It will encourage me to write more such articles. Do share your valuable suggestions, I appreciate your honest feedback!

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Resources:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html

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Git Hack: Make commit with a past date

Ayushi Rawat — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:45:06 +0000

Hello reader!

Ever wanted to commit something to a git repo with a past date? Here’s how you could do it.

If you are working on a project and missed a commit yesterday or you accomplished the task but GitHub for Windows bailed on you? Well, this little hack can solve your problem.

Check the YouTube video tutorial for live demonstration and better Understanding.

Pre-Step.
Pull all data from remote to the local repository.

For the same, we are using the --amend and --date switches.
The exact command is as follows:

$ git commit --amend --date="YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS"

Simple isn't it!

And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Share in the comments below.
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Forecast Weather using Python

Ayushi Rawat — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:22:52 +0000

Hello reader!
Weather is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere and is different in different parts of the world and changes over minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Rain and dull clouds, windy blue skies, cold snow, and sticky heat are very different conditions, yet they are all-weather. According to the Wikipedia definition:

Weather is the state of the atmosphere.

In this blog post, we will learn how to forecast weather details. We will see the implementation in Python with hardly a few lines of code.

Check out the Repository for Ultimate Resource in python. Drop a star if you find it useful! Got anything to add? Open a PR on the same!

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1.  What is wttr?
2.  What is requests Module
3.  How to forecast the weather using Python

Let's get started!

What is wttr?

wttr — the right way to check the weather!

wttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service that supports various information representation methods like terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients (curl, httpie, or wget), HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.

wttr.in uses wego for visualization and various data sources for weather forecast information.

If you wish to know more about it, you can refer to wttr's GitHub Repo.

Module Used:

requests Module:

Requests is a simple, yet elegant HTTP library. It allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. Requests officially support Python 2.7 & 3.5+.

If you wish to know more about it, you can refer to Requests Module Documentation.

Now that you are familiar with Requests Module basics and have acquired basic knowledge of wttr, we can move forward to the coding section.

Time to Code!

You can find all the code at my GitHub Repository. Drop a star if you find it useful.

In order to access the Python library, you need to install it into your Python environment

pip install requests

Now, we need to import the package into our python script. Use the following command to do so.

import requests

Now that we have imported the library using the command import requests, let's proceed.

Let's ask the user to input the city name for which he/she wishes to fetch the weather details.

city = input('input the city name')
print(city)

You can also hard-code the value if you will only check for yourself.

city = 'bhopal'

Now, let's display a simple message.

print('Displaying Weather report for: ' + city)

#output:
Displaying Weather report for: bhopal

Let's define the URL, We will make use of format to pass city as a parameter here.

url = 'https://wttr.in/{}'.format(city)

It's time to make use of the requests module.

res = requests.get(url)

Our resultant data is stored in res. We will make use of the text method to extract our desired weather details and let's display the result.

print(res.text)

This is how the Weather Forecast will look like:

Isn't it beautiful? And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Share in the comments below.
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Work from Home Essential Tips

Ayushi Rawat — Tue, 25 May 2021 16:34:58 +0000

Hello, Reader!
Working from home has become the new normal and It is a must to ensure a healthy work-life balance. Here are few essential tips which can help you!

You can also refer to the YouTube video on the same.

Dedicated Workspace!

Although you're working from home, You must have a dedicated Workspace. Start with Setting up your desk.

It helps you establish physical boundaries. Most people tend to ignore this, especially if you're new to working remotely. You simply need a dedicated space. If you're working from home with your partner, or kids, or a roommate, make your needs known.

Try to make it more comfortable and most importantly, free from distractions!

TIP: Pick a spot for your desk where you can plenty of natural light.

Set up a Morning Routine!

If I talk about me, personally, mornings sets the tone for the whole day. It prepares you for the upcoming day.

No Rush, give yourself a few days to establish a routine. It helps you fit in the best mindset. Your morning routine can involve going to a gym, reading the news or maybe cooking. What is your morning Routine?

TIP: Start your day with a Glass of water, Stay Hydrated!

Stay connected!

Do not miss the human interaction, with Time, working from home can become isolating, So its important to stay connected!

Stay connected with your team using virtual communication tools like Ms-teams, Google-meet or Slack. Have a one-to-one conversation on a regular basis with peers.

What do you do to stay Connected?

Schedule breaks & Move yourself!

Working from home can be tiring desk job. You need to take care of your mental health. You cannot just grab a laptop and keep working all day long, it will affect your health drastically.

Schedule your breaks,

Take small five minutes break every hour
Drink water frequently.
Strech your muscles.
Prepare Tea/Coffee or any healthy drink and take a small walk for few mintutes.
When you receive a non-work call, again do a little walk and talk.

How do you Utilize and plan your breaks?

Do you have reliable technology?

So when you're working from home, it becomes important to make sure that ones has a reliable internet connection. If you have unlimited mobile data, you can connect to your phone's hotspot, But prefer a stable broadband connection.

TIP: Always have a backup plan!

Set Up Work-Life boundaries !

If you are working remotely, It becomes important to set up few boundaries so that your work does not get affected. Having a dedicated workspace is a first.

Do you check for your cell phone's notifications regularly? Nope, you gotta stop doing it! It is killing your time and your productivity. So maybe you can even setup some virtual boundaries to maintain a good work life balance.

What do you do to achieve a good work life balance?

BONUS!

Always Maintain good posture.
Use ethernet connection for video calls from the computer.
Organize your daily tasks.
Don't eat at your desk.
Routine could be your best ally.

Share what you do to ensure a healthy work-life balance and If you would like to add anything feel free to add in the comments section below.

And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Share in comments below.
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What is Git and Github? | Git vs GitHub

Ayushi Rawat — Sun, 23 May 2021 14:20:55 +0000

Hello reader!

If you are a programmer, you must have heard about Git and GitHub. This article will not contain any code, We will first get familiar with the interface I will try and explain to you the basics of theory and concepts in plain English to help you get started with Git. This is the 1st article in the Git and GitHub series.

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The Ultimate resource hub of Python: All at one place

Ultimate-Python-Resource-Hub

The Ultimate resource hub of Python: All at one place

Python Official Documentation

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING, CODE-OF-CONDUCT for details before you contribute.

Requirements

Have Python 3.7 or newer installed. You can check the version by typing python3 --version in your command line. You can download the latest Python version from here.

Coding Practice Playground for Python

View on GitHub

You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1.  What is Version Control System and its Types
2.  What is Git?
3.  What is GitHub?
4.  And the difference between the two.

Let's get started!

What is Version Control System?

Before jumping in for git let’s understand what version control is.

VCS or version control is a management system that tracks changes in a computer file.
It is a software tool that records and manages changes to the source code over a period of time.

So imagine that you are working with your friend on a shared document and two of you are making changes in the file at the same time, what will happen? How will you track the change and mark the owner of the same? Or maybe you are working in a large team, how will you manage then?

It helps developers to work efficiently.

Consider another scenario, If you are working on a project and modify or update your code on a regular basis and on one specific day, you wish to rollback and revert files back to a previous state or revert the entire project back to a previous state, compare changes over time, see who last modified something that might be causing a problem, who introduced an issue and when, and more, a version control system can do this for you.

Types of Version control

So basically there are three major types of VCS.

Local Version Control Systems
Centralized Version Control Systems
Distributed Version Control Systems

We will not get into too much detail about this in this article.

What is Git?

There are various Version control system in the market but Git is one of the most popular amongst them.

Git was originally developed in 2005 by the creator of Linux.
Git is free and open-source software so, anyone can use it.

You cannot remember every change that you make, quite obvious, right? But what you can do is remember a simple command.

Honestly, it has made our life easier as It keeps track of the entire history of things that you are working on and allows us to revert back to a previous version no matter how many times you have made changes to your file.
It has simplified the process of working with other people and encourages collaboration among developers and makes working in a team really easy.
Git widely used by various organizations, businesses, and even startups to manage their code, it lets you watch the entire timeline. We will study this in detail when we will learn how to set up, install and use GitHub in the next part of this series.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is one of the most advanced and developed hosting platforms for version control and collaboration. It is a web-based service for version control using Git has all the benefits of git and even more.

I have explained the look and feel and an overview of GitHub in the video. check it out for a detailed explanation.

Are Git and GitHub the same?

No, Git and GitHub are not the same.

Git is a version control system that lets you manage and keep track of your source code and history whereas GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage git repositories.

That’s Git and GitHub in a nutshell. Do you have a GitHub account? Share the link below. And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Which one is your favorite Podcast? Share in comments below.
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Automate Cowin Vaccine slots Availablity using Python

Ayushi Rawat — Tue, 18 May 2021 06:37:53 +0000

Hello Reader!

I hope you all are safe and sound and at home. Do not step out of your house unless it’s absolutely necessary with proper precautions.

Coronavirus cases are increasing day by day. The second wave has hit very badly in many areas. It’s very important to get vaccinated. But, getting a slot seems next to impossible. Even I am not able to get my hands on one. So I was trying to think of a better idea possible and if you know me, you must know by now that I am a python freak, so I tried to automate the availability of the slot.

So in this blog post, I am going to tell you how you can automate the vaccine slots availability and get notified when a slot is available. We will see the implementation in python.

For your ease, you can use the code and it's available at my GitHub repository. Spread this article as much as possible so that everyone can get notified about the availability of slots and we all can get vaccinated.

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You can refer to my YouTube video Tutorial to see a working tutorial for better understanding and a step-by-step guide of the same.

What will be covered in this Blog

1. What is Web Scraping?
2. The Web-Scaping Process and its Uses.
3. What is Coronavirus and CoWin?
4. How to Automate vaccine slots availability

Let's get started!

What is Web Scrapping?:

Introduction

If you’ve ever copy and pasted information from a website, you’ve performed the same function as any web scraper, only on a microscopic, manual scale.

Web scraping, also known as web data extraction, is the process of retrieving or “scraping” data from a website. This information is collected and then exported into a format that is more useful for the user. Be it a spreadsheet or an API.

Two important points to be taken into consideration here:

Always be respectful and try to get permission to scrape, do not bombard a website with scraping requests, otherwise, your IP address may get blocked!
Be aware that websites change often, meaning your code could go from working to totally broken from one day to the next.

The process: three simple steps

Request for a response from the webpage
Parse and extract with the help of Beautiful soup and lxml
Download and export the data with pandas into excel

Its Uses:

It can serve several purposes, the most popular ones are Investment Decision Making, Competitor Monitoring, News Monitoring, Market Trend Analysis, Appraising Property Value, Estimating Rental Yields, Politics and Campaigns, and many more.

If you wish to know about it further. I am attaching the Wikipedia link here. You can have a look.

What is Coronavirus?

I do not think Coronavirus needs an introduction, but just in case if someone does not know, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes

If you wish to know about it further. I am attaching the Wikipedia link here. You can have a look.

What is CoWin?

Under the universal immunization program, for several years, India has been using a vaccine intelligence system called eVIN (electronic vaccine intelligence network), CoWIN is an extension of eVIN. CoWIN stands for Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work.

it is the gateway to vaccination and the backbone of the vaccination drive.

The data source

We will make use of the cowin official website.

Module Used:

requests Module:

Use the requests library to grab the page.
This may fail if you have a firewall blocking Python.
Sometimes you need to run this twice if it fails the first time.

Now that you are familiar with Coronavirus and CoWin and have acquired basic knowledge of Web Scrapping and requests module, we can move forward to the coding section.

Time to Code!

You can find all the code at my GitHub Repository. Drop a star if you find it useful.

Let's understand this!

In order to access the Python library, you need to install it into your Python environment

pip install requests

Now, we need to import the package into our python script. Use the following command to do so.

import requests

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import time

import json

Now that we have imported the libraries, let's proceed.

Let's display a welcome message. we will make use of print method for the same.

print("Starting search for Covid vaccine slots!")

Now, let's set some basic parameters,

age = 52
pinCodes = ["462003"]
print_flag = 'Y'
num_days = 2

The Slots are available in two categories, Age 45+ and Age 18+. Let's proceed with Age 45+ for now, you can set it according to your need.
You can perform the search based on Pincode or District. Since we are looking for the slots available nearby, I am making use of Pin-code. You can also pass multiple pin-codes, separated by commans in the list.
We only want to check for slots availability for the next two days for let's givenum_daysas 2 here.
Lastly, set the flag value to y.

Now let's make use of datetime method to calculate today's date.

actual = datetime.today()

#output:
2021-05-13 13:35:24.396612

Now, run a loop to convert it into list format. We will make use of timedelta method to convert it into list format

list_format = [actual + timedelta(days=i) for i in range(num_days)]

#Output:
[datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 13, 13, 39, 18, 496330), datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 14, 13, 39, 18, 496330)]

we will again run a loop to fetch the dates from the list and we will make use of strftime method to do so. Note that we are storing date in date-month-year format.

actual_dates = [i.strftime("%d-%m-%Y") for i in list_format]

#Output:
['13-05-2021', '14-05-2021']

Next, we will run a while loop to fetch the details of the slots. Initially let's set the counter to zero.

Let's introduce two more loops here:

one in order to fetch details for each pin-code.
second in order to fetch details for each date in the given pin-code.

Now in order to get requests, let's define the URL.

URL = "https://cdn-api.co-vin.in/api/v2/appointment/sessions/public/calendarByPin?pincode={}&date={}".format(pinCode, given_date)

If you observe, I have added parameters in the URL itself using string formatting. We are passing in two parameters here, pincode and date. Every time the inner loop runs, this URL will be called and the respective date and pin-code will be passed as arguments for each case.

Now, in order to get the request, let's define the header.

header = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36'}

Once done, let's call requests and we will make use of get method.

result = requests.get( URL, headers=header)

Now, our response is stored in the result. Let's try printing it out. We will make use of text method for the same.

print(result.text)

#OUTPUT:

{"centers":[{"center_id":691508,"name":"Navin Girls HSS Tulsi Nagar 18","address":"1250 Tulsi Nagar HOSPITAL","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"b63ce111-23dd-4d4e-9f1c-c97073c57a52","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":18,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":570554,"name":"SAHTI Vaishali Kotra 
KNK","address":"Govt. Higher Sec. Kamla Nehru Girls School Teenshed TT Nagar","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"93144388-6dca-4f7c-9aba-ecd5b120fa94","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":215,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":592476,"name":"25 Battalion Campus BhadBhada","address":"25th Battalion Bhadbhada Bhopal","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"b857cd10-b46f-404f-a5de-81032b667e46","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":570591,"name":"GHMC- Ward 29 Office 18","address":"Pandit Khushilal Sharma Parisar","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"5bcd92b4-a476-4c47-a203-3e96179e5beb","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":18,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":609392,"name":"Govt School Nayabasera 18","address":"NAYABASERA SANJEEVANI","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"60306cc5-15a4-4195-876a-2889676631c0","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":18,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":561924,"name":"Saraswati Shisu Mandir Sch Cov","address":"Saraswati Shishu Mandir School Shivaji Nagar Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"e1f4f7a1-42d5-4f58-934b-ed031fc3e7c0","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":137,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":591027,"name":"CD RAJ BHAVAN CVX","address":"RAJ BHAVAN BHOPAL","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"52de668d-5526-4e09-8c41-f34c1912302d","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":667429,"name":"CD Vallabh Bhawan CVX","address":"Vallabh Bhawan Bhopal","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"e8202c2d-b545-401c-b266-8bf9102687e2","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":561310,"name":"Govt Kanya School Nehru Nagar","address":"Govt Kanya School Nehru Nagar","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"85a85c27-cabd-4058-b902-7b0bf457cb44","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":114,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":636442,"name":"CD VIDHAN SABHA COVISHIELD","address":"VIDHAN SABHA","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"6010b80f-a818-4cf5-ad67-90a0cb49f1d6","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":611640,"name":"Kopal HSS Nehru Nagar18","address":"Kopal HSS Nehru Nagar Bhopal","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"b4a74e1f-cc5b-498a-b92d-25bf5c3bc072","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":18,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":639426,"name":"BANGANG WARD 25 CVX","address":"SANJEEVNI BANGANGA","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"17:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"def621bf-2e3e-4514-a605-9debd696d8ef","date":"13-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVAXIN","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-05:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":636455,"name":"JAHANGIRABAD SANJEEVANI","address":"JAHANGIRABAD","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"18:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"a58f02b7-a252-4daf-a541-b7ddf9bae21c","date":"19-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-06:00PM"]}]},{"center_id":627202,"name":"CD Sewaniya Gaud","address":"CD Sewaniya Gaud","state_name":"Madhya Pradesh","district_name":"Bhopal","block_name":"PHANDA","pincode":462003,"lat":23,"long":77,"from":"09:00:00","to":"18:00:00","fee_type":"Free","sessions":[{"session_id":"80130fd2-483a-4bb7-876a-9f2130484994","date":"19-05-2021","available_capacity":0,"min_age_limit":45,"vaccine":"COVISHIELD","slots":["09:00AM-11:00AM","11:00AM-01:00PM","01:00PM-03:00PM","03:00PM-06:00PM"]}]}]}

This data is not structured. So, we will make use of json here. Let's cast the data into json file.

if result.ok:
    response_json = result.json()

Now, In order to retrieve the information for each center, we will run a loop for the same. Initially, let's set the flag as false

flag = False
if response_json["centers"]:            
    if(print_flag.lower() =='y'):
        for center in response_json["centers"]:

Now, let's display and verify our data for each center

print(center)

#OUTPUT:

{'center_id': 691508, 'name': 'Navin Girls HSS Tulsi Nagar 18', 'address': '1250 Tulsi Nagar HOSPITAL', 'state_name': 'Madhya Pradesh', 'district_name': 'Bhopal', 'block_name': 'PHANDA', 'pincode': 462003, 'lat': 23, 'long': 77, 'from': '09:00:00', 'to': '17:00:00', 'fee_type': 'Free', 'sessions': [{'session_id': 'b63ce111-23dd-4d4e-9f1c-c97073c57a52', 'date': '13-05-2021', 'available_capacity': 0, 'min_age_limit': 18, 'vaccine': 'COVAXIN', 'slots': ['09:00AM-11:00AM', '11:00AM-01:00PM', '01:00PM-03:00PM', '03:00PM-05:00PM']}]}

And now finally we can retrieve the information for each session. We will apply the check parameters as the arguments we saved earlier.

for session in center["sessions"]:
    if (session["min_age_limit"] <= age and session["available_capacity"] > 0 ):

If it stratifies our conditions, let's display the result.

print('Pincode: ' + pinCode)
print("Available on: {}".format(given_date))
print("\t", center["name"])
print("\t", center["block_name"])
print("\t Price: ", center["fee_type"])
print("\t Availablity : ", session["available_capacity"])

if(session["vaccine"] != ''):
    print("\t Vaccine type: ", session["vaccine"])
    print("\n")

At the end, let's increase the counter by one.

counter += 1

Let's cover the edge case:

if(counter == 0):
    print("No Vaccination slot avaliable!")
else:
    print("Search Completed!")

Lastly, let's sync the data in real-time.

dt = datetime.now() + timedelta(minutes=3)

while datetime.now() < dt:
    time.sleep(1)

Let's have a look at the output and let's compare it with the actual website.

And with that, it's a wrap! You can host the script at the server to get notified every time a slot is available near you. You can find all the code at my GitHub Repository. Drop a star if you find it useful.

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How to Develop and Showcase Soft Skills

Ayushi Rawat — Tue, 18 May 2021 04:53:55 +0000

Hello Reader, Hope you are doing well!

Soft Skills play a vital role in Interviews and in shaping one's career.

In this Blog article learn what soft skills are, examples of soft skills, why are they important, ways to develop soft skills and how to showcase them. 😄✔️⭐️

You can also refer to my YouTube Video for the same! I am sure you will like it!

What are soft skills?

Soft skills are your character and personality traits and help climb up the career ladder.

They're the interpersonal skills you use each day, relate to how you work.
Soft skills have more to do with who people are, rather than what they know.

Some examples of Soft Skills:

Communication
Decision-making
Adaptability
Conflict resolution
Teamwork
Time management
Problem-solving
Leadership
Creativity
Work ethics

Why are soft skills important?

Play a vital role in resume writing
Give you more of an edge in the interview
Help you build strong relationships at work
Help you excel at your job
Could also get you a promotion or a raise.

Valuable Soft Skills from the eye of an employer:

Time management
Emotional intelligence
Communication skills
Adaptability
Result orientated
Leadership

How do you identify Soft Skills?

Observing feedbacks at work
Analysis of the situation
Digging deeper at your personality traits
Reach out to co-workers, managers or mentors

How do you develop your Soft Skills?

Observe colleagues at work
Engage in conversations
Build Decision-making approach
Management your time
Be adaptive
Solve problems.
Be open for feedback
Reach out to co-workers, managers or mentors.

How to improve your Soft Skills?

Find resources to help you learn
Practice skills consistently
Get feedback from others.
Work with a mentor or career coach
Seek advice
Take an online course

How Showcase your Soft Skills on Resume?

Add a skills section to your resume

ASK YOURSELF:

Is my skills section easy to read?
Are these skills up to date?
Are these skills unique to me?

IMPORTANT:

Support your skills with examples

Hard Skills vs Soft Skills?

Hard skills are technical knowledge gained through any life experience, including in your career or education.

KEY DIFFERENCE:
How they are gained & put to use in the workplace?

EXAMPLES:
-Computer technology
-Data analysis
-Accounting
-Marketing
-Web development, etc.

Final Thoughts:

Soft skills are non-technical skills that impact your performance in the workplace.
You can also develop & improve your soft skills.
Include your soft skills in your resume.
Demonstrate your soft skills during interviews.

BONUS:

Skills are like dessert!

REMEMBER:

Quality is greater than Quantity!

And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful!
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