For a school project I need to make a simple python program. I need ideas so if you have something that you want made for you then please post it here. I’ll release it here under a gnu general public license once I’ve finished.

  • incogtino@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    A real world problem that would help a real person

    A friend coordinates a group of kayakers. Each week they kayak on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. To choose where to go they consult tide listings for the mouth of local creeks and rivers, then randomly select a site that meets a minimum tide height (the threshold is different for each site)

    Ideally a Python project would:

    • Take a list of locations (as lat long, or choose from a map)

    Each location has:

    1. a threshold value for tide height (minimum height)
    2. a preferred direction (e.g. if you enter near the mouth, you want a falling tide so you paddle hard first then easy)
    3. an earliest start time (further locations get a later time, specified by the user)

    • Calculate the tide height for each location (calc on wikipedia) between 7am and 9am on each Wednesday and Saturday

    • Randomly select a location and time (that meets the threshold value, tide direction, and earliest start time) for each date

    • Choose a different location if the randomly chosen location was used as one of the previous x locations

    • Return the list of dates, times, locations, tide heights, and tide directions in a human readable format e.g. csv