Projects
I Built a Kids’ Movie Ratings Database Using Beautiful Soup
Project Motivation My wife and I are pretty discerning about which movies we allow our two daughters (ages 4 and 5) to watch. Recently, we were in conversation with their teachers at school about assembling a good list of age-appropriate movies. To simplify the process, I decided to build a database of movie ratings that … Read more
My Journey to Help Build a P2P Social Network – Database Code Structure
Welcome to part 3 of this series, and thank you for sticking around! I’ve come to realize this might become a rather long series. The main reason for that is that it documents two things. This is the birth of an application and my personal journey in developing that application. I know parts 1 and … Read more
How I Created a Forecasting App Using Streamlit
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to design a forecasting app and have it hosted on Streamlit Cloud. If you have been reading some of my tutorials you will notice that Streamlit has been my favorite web framework as far as data science is concerned. This is because it’s easy … Read more
How I Created a Code Translator Using GPT-3
Hey, Folks! I will show you how I created a code translator using OpenAI’s GPT-3 models. 👾 About Me: Before I do, I’d like to share a little about myself. My name is Kwame Asante, and I am a software engineer. I work for a financial institution during the day and teach others how to … Read more
How I Created a 5-in-1 Calculator App using Streamlit
Welcome to another interesting project. In this tutorial, I will show you how I created a 5-1 calculator app using Streamlit and deployed it on Streamlit Cloud. 👉 In my tutorial on creating a readability checker app, I told you guys that Streamlit can be used to create virtually anything within its capabilities. Project Description … Read more
How I Built My Own ERC-20 Token (2/2)
In the first part, we connected the front end with Metamask but couldn’t fetch the balance. Let’s try to fetch the balance from the wallet this time. But first, install the ether.js library to communicate with the smart contract. Import ether.js library to App.js. Now we need to import the contract ABI. 💡 The contract … Read more
The P2P Bootstrapping Problem – Starting My Journey To Help Build a P2P Social Network
Decentralized P2P Social Nets When I saw the Finxter announcement about trying to create a decentralized P2P social network, I knew I had to take part. My interest peaked as it had seldom been before. I love the idea of a social network that can function without interference from companies or governments. It feels like … Read more
GitHub Fork and Pull Workflow
If you are unfamiliar with git and/or GitHub, it can be overwhelming navigating all the different workflow models you can use to add code to a repository. I know this feeling well, as it took me a while to get used to new workflows after being used to the classic SVN (years ago in University). … Read more
How I Built a House Price Prediction App Using Streamlit
In this tutorial, I will take you through a machine learning project on House Price prediction with Python. We have previously learned how to solve a classification problem. 👉 Recommended: How I Built and Deployed a Python Loan Eligibility Prediction App on Streamlit Today, I will show you how to solve a regression problem and … Read more
How I Created a Weekly Shopping List and Recipe App in Streamlit
Project Description So I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a shopping list application for a while now. I wanted to create it in such a way that everybody in the family could contribute. We order all our food once a week, and then I go and collect it. With the app, everybody would … Read more
20 Real-Life Skills You Need as a UI Developer in 2023
I have created many apps throughout my career. Some apps, such as the Finxter Python learning app, have reached millions of users over the years. While I’m not a professional web designer (by education), I was taught the hard way (by trial and error) that there are some crucial and timeless skills you need to … Read more