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+# Mini Capstone
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+For your final Python project, build a program that solves a problem or accomplishes a task. Your program needs to utilize an external library (not part of the Python standard library -- this needs to be something that you `pip install`).  
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+The functionality of the program is up to you -- use this as an opportunity to get creative. Sometimes students explore an idea they want to use for their capstone project or solve an actual problem they have. For a list of Python libraries to consider using in this project, check out https://awesome-python.com
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+### Examples of previous projects
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+- Japanese character matching game in PyGame
+- Kroger API and Pandas to find cheapest products
+- Communicating with hardware GPS
+- Cement bond log reader to create annotated matplotlib PDFs
+- PySimpleGUI 4-function calculator
+- BeautifulSoup to work with Kindle notes
+- PyDictionary/Deep Translator/Google Translate/EasyGUI Arabic word of the day
+- Pygal stock price charts based on Yahoo financial data
+- Aquarium calculator, logger, and grapher
+- Animal Crossing critter logger and grapher
+- Router traffic / adventure game in Tkinter
+- Stock information from Yahoo financial data w/ Plotly charts
+- HNT finder app
+- Hangman with custom graphics in Tkinter
+- Dinner decider app in Tkinter using Yelp API
+- Parse medical residency applications into spreadsheets
+- Command line packaged calculator
+- Web scraping Yelp and visualizing data using matplotlib
+- Tic tac toe in Tkinter
+- 4 function calculator in Tkinter packaged into an exe
+- BeautifulSoup and Pandas to make spreadsheets of basketball stats
+- Tkinter quotes and calculator
+- BeautifulSoup and Pandas to get stock information
+- Tic tac toe in Pygame