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Continue reading →: Android Studio / Android AppSo I’ve had a quick play with Xcode and Swift on the Mac, and that got me thinking about Android. Android apps are built more on Java rather than C, and I’ve dabbled with Java in the past so lets see what I can do. I downloaded Android Studio…
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Continue reading →: Paddle Ball V1 (Python)Do you remember Alleyway from the Nintendo Gameboy? It was a 2D game where the player moved a paddle on the bottom of the screen whilst a ball bounced around the screen. If the ball hit the paddle it would rebound upwards, if the ball touched the bottom of the…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast GUI V1 (Python)I think I’ve started to get to grips with GUI windows in Python, so I’m now going to go back and rework my weather forecast so that it uses a GUI. My first attempt takes a longitude and latitude input from the user. Currently it outputs back to the Python…
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Continue reading →: Creating a basic GUI window V2 (Python)My previous attempt at creating a GUI window worked but I’ve since learned that when TKinter creates a window it uses a class structure that creates a super (root) window. Frames can then be created within this window to hold applications (buttons, labels etc). I’ve updated my (basic) program so…
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Continue reading →: Hello World (Xcode)Today I was (in a small way) involved in preparing an app (application) for deployment to Apple iOS devices. Even with my years of using Apple Macs, I have not really spent any time creating applications/programs for Macs past AppleScript / Apple Automator. With the chance to learn a new…
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Continue reading →: Creating a basic GUI window (Python)So far my Python programs have been very much text input based, i.e. users would need to use a command line to input values or progress in the program. This is okay for some users but the majority of modern computer users prefer using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and…
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Continue reading →: NASA Imagery V1 (Python)
The next NASA open API that I wanted to play with is “Imagery” (https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#imagery) which retrieves a Landsat 8 image for a supplied location. I created a program but so far it is not working as expected. —— #!/bin/python3 #NASA Earth Imagery #www.geektechstuff.com #api.nasa.gov #Modules to import import json, requests…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V3 (Python)When I started my Weather Forecast I decided that I wanted to ask the user for location and display a graphic. I’ve now accomplished this, my program asks for Longitude and Latitude and now displays a picture depending on the weather – currently cold and wet here in Manchester. ——…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V2 (Python)Doh! I confused Kelvin units with Fahrenheit units which was totally throwing out the Celsius units. I’ve also started to modify the the first forecast to display more information, thinking of going down the “email me if the temp drops below…” route. — #!/bin/python3 #geektechstuff #print weather location for Manchester,…
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Continue reading →: Weather Forecast V1 (Python)Last night and this morning has seen a little bit of snow across Manchester (UK), spurring me on to create my weather checker in Python. I am making use of the open API that http://openweathermap.org provides and having signed up for a free API key I’ve got straight into creating…
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