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OIM3600 - Computer Science for Business Students
Session 25 (11/25)
Today's Agenda
Welcome/News/Announcements
GenAI
Using OpenAI API
Automation
Working on Final Project (~30 mins)
Collaborate with Git/GitHub (if time allows)
Welcome/News/Announcements
Final Project:
Due on 12/03, Tuesday
Finish Project Proposal before end of this class.
Sessions 26 (Required, online)
:
Wrapping up the semester
Communications:
Slack
- for debugging, clarifications, real-time discussion, casual chat, etc.
Email
- specify course # in subject title, e.g.,
"OIM3600: GitHub settings"
Meet
with me
in person
during office hours at least once this semester.
What we have learned so far
Encoding:
Tools: Editors, Git/GitHub
Programming:
Variables, Expressions, Statements, Functions
Types: int, float, string, boolean, Nonetype, list, dict, tuple, set...
Control flows: Conditional, Iterations
Algorithms: Binary search, insert sort, bubble sort, selection sort, ...
API
Database and SQL
Internet
Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Web Applications using FastAPI
GenAI
OpenAI API Quick Start
Automation
What to Automate?
Routine tasks
What tasks do you
repeat
daily or weekly in your personal life or work?
Are they
time-consuming
or
error-prone
?
Pick a task and list its steps.
Which step feels
hardest
or
slowest
?
Which step often leads to
mistakes
?
What is the
input
? Do you need to retrieve data from files, Excel, or websites?
What is the format of
output
?
What
tools/platforms
do you currently use? What
frustrates
you most?
Imagine Automation
Write how automation could simplify the process.
Reddit Discussions on Automation
How automation works
What are some of the best things you have automated using Python?
What are some real world applications or things at a job with Python?
What are some things you have automated, using python?
What’s the coolest things you’ve done with python?
How and if you use python in your non coding jobs?
What's the best thing you've automated?
Python for Automation
APIs
GenAI
Working with Excel
A Guide to Excel Spreadsheets in Python With openpyxl
Web Scraping
Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python
PDF -
How to Work With a PDF in Python
Email -
Sending Emails With Python
Creating Chrome Extensions
...
Final Project
Project Instruction
Project Teaming
You can work individually or in a team of two.
GitHub repository for project
Only one
creates a public project repository.
The other member needs to
fork
this repository as a contributer.
Additional requirements:
Discuss your project idea with me.
Create a brief
project proposal
in a markdown file within your repository before writing code.
Final Project Proposal (Using
Markdown
)
Title
A concise, descriptive project title.
Members
List the names of team members.
Objective
:
Describe the main goal in 1-2 sentences, focusing on the problem it solves or the value it provides.
Tech Stack & Resources
:
List any technologies, libraries, frameworks, APIs, tools, or resources needed.
About Project
r/ProgrammerHumor
xkcd:
Tasks
Follow-up:
ChatGPT Solution to 1425
World's first-ever smart binoculars can identify 9,000 birds thanks to built-in AI
More APIs
Collaborate with Git/GitHub
Make your
First Contribution
(
OIM3600/oim3600-first-contributions-2024fall
):
Fork the repository to your account and clone it to your computer.
Create a branch
add-<your-name>
(or
feature
/
bugfix
in real projects.)
Add your name and Github link to
Contributors.md
, and commit.
Push the changes to GitHub.
Open a pull request from your branch for review and wait be merged.
Repeat above with a new branch for a new contribution (e.g. new
.py
file.)
As a
Project Owner/Maintainer
Manage contributions by reviewing and merging pull requests, maintaining project branches, and addressing issues.
Recommendation:
Step-By-Step Team Workflow with GitHub Desktop