GUI Projects

1. MP3 Player

Project Details: It is not possible to play the contents of an audio file without a player. Audio files are digital files and you can showcase your skill by building a tool MP3 player using Python. You need to build an MP3 player software that emulate the physical MP3 player. Using this software, users will be allowed to play an MP3 files on the desktop, laptop or computer. 

Technical Details: The goal is to build an MP3 software that allows it’s users to play MP3 and other digital audio files. You need to focus on building a beautiful user interface for the better engagement of the users. The interface will be listing the available MP3 files. A user can also have the option to list other digital audio files that are not MP3. Also, a user should be able to see the information on the file that is playing. You can include some information such as….

• The name of the file
• Its length
• The amount played  (minutes and seconds)
• The amount not played (minutes and seconds)

To handle the MP3 files and other digital audio files you can use pygame, pymedia and simpleaudio library in Python. These libraries allow you to work with multimedia files in a few lines of code. You can also add a feature that allows users to create a playlist. To store the information of created playlist you can use sqlite3 module of SQLite database.

Additional Challenge: Add a feature that allows users to repeat currently playing files or even shuffle the list of files to be played. You can also include one feature that allows the users to increase and decrease the playing speed of the audio file.

Real Life Examples:

• MusicBee
• Foobar2000 

2. Alarm Clock

Project Details: We use the alarm in our day to day life that gives an audio or visual reminder about a certain condition. Using Python you need to build an alarm software that allows users to set time for a certain condition and when the condition is met it should give an audio signal. This tool will work from the user’s laptop or desktop device.

Technical Details: In this project you need to mainly focus on the timing and the audio signal of the alarm because the main objective is to activate audio signals at certain times of the day. Add the feature that allows users to create, edit, and delete alarms. Also, the interface should display all the active and inactive alarms. For audio signals or reminder, you need to set the tone in your software. You can use pygame library playing audio. You also need to save information on alarms in your database such as…alarm date, time, and tone location.

Additional Challenge: Add a feature that allows users to set recurring alarms. Using this feature user will be able to set alarms that will ring at a certain time on certain days of the week, every week. For example, an alarm can be set at 11:00 AM every Saturday. You can also add the snooze feature in this application. 

Real Life Examples:

• FreeAlarmClock 
• TimerForMac 

Python in the world of programming everyone is familiar with the popularity of this language. Learning python and building the project is always an amazing experience for developers. This language really deserves hype in today’s era and why not if it can solve a lot of real-world problems. Well, every programmer’s journey starts with learning the basics of any programming language and once they move ahead they realize the importance of building the projects using the same language. They become curious to know how things work in some applications and they try to get some practical exposure to expand their knowledge by building some cool projects. If you’re a developer then learning the syntax of a language is not enough….it’s important to know that how the concepts of a language can be applied to solve some real-world problems or challenges. Well, python is not an exception. 

Python is a very powerful language and the best thing is it’s easy to learn. You can build a lot of cool stuff using this language. So don’t just get stuck on theoretical concepts. Once you know the basics of this language, go ahead, explore, find out some good projects to work on, and get some practical exposure. In programming always remember that getting hands-on experience is the best way to strengthen your knowledge.   Today in this blog we are going to discuss some projects you can work on as an intermediate Python developer. These projects are not too hard and not too easy. There will be some challenges while building these projects and you will really enjoy solving those problems. We have divided the projects into three categories…

1. Web Applications: Basically developers are responsible for building both the front-end and back-end part of the application. As a python developer, your main focus would be back-end part where all the business logic gets implemented. You can use some Python web frameworks such as Django and Flask.
2. Desktop GUI: You can make your own Desktop Graphical User Interface application using Python. PySimpleGUI is one of the user friendly framework for Desktop applications. PyQt5 is another advanced powerful GUI framework but it has steep learning curve.
3. Command-Line: Command line applications work in a console window. You can use docopt, argparse, and click frameworks to build your applications.

Now let’s discuss some projects for all the above three categories one by one…