What it does

GOAL MANAGER is a python project with SQL connectivity. It is a project to help school students focus and help them track their Goals. Gives a Career path and helps to set and achieve goals and keeps motivating students.

How we built it

During coding and design of the software Project, Python IDLE, as a powerful front-end tool is used for getting Graphical User Interface,GUI(Using Tkinter Library) based integrated platform and coding simplicity. As a back-end a powerful, open source RDBMS, MySQL is used.

MODULES/LIBRARIES USED IN THE PROJECT

Throughout the development of the project, many python modules have been used.

Mysql.connector MySQL Connector/Python enables Python programs to access MySQL databases, using an API that is compliant with the Python Database API Specification v2.0 (PEP 249). It is written in pure Python and does not have any dependencies except for the Python Standard Library. This module does not come built-in with Python and has to be downloaded separately.
Tkinter Tkinter is the standard GUI library for Python. Python when combined with Tkinter provides a fast and easy way to create GUI applications. Tkinter provides a powerful object-oriented interface to the Tk GUI toolkit. Tkinter provides various controls, such as buttons, labels and text boxes used in a GUI application. These controls are commonly called widgets. All Tkinter widgets have access to specific geometry management methods, which have the purpose of organizing widgets throughout the parent widget area. Tkinter exposes the following geometry manager classes: pack, grid, and place.
Random Python offers random module that can generate random numbers. These are pseudo-random numbers. It also contains functions which randomly selects an integer from a range or a random element from a list.
Json JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is a lightweight data interchange format. It is a language-independent and cross platform text format, supported by many programming languages. This format is used for data exchange between the web server and clients. JSON format is similar to pickle. However, pickle serialization is Python specific whereas JSON format is implemented by many languages hence has become universal standard. Functionality and interface of json module in Python’s standard library is similar to pickle and marshal modules.
Time The Python time module provides many ways of representing time in code, such as objects, numbers, and strings. It also provides functionality other than representing time, like waiting during code execution and measuring the efficiency of your code. This module begins the recording time from the epoch. Epoch means time in history and it begins on 1st January 1970.
Scheduler An in-process scheduler for periodic jobs that uses the builder pattern for configuration. Schedule lets you run Python functions (or any other callable) periodically at pre-determined intervals. Schedule Library matches your systems time to that of scheduled time set by you. Once the scheduled time and system time matches the job function (command function that is scheduled) is called.

What's next for Goal Manager

Using a cloud database instead of MySql.
Using two step Authentication making the application more secure.
Using Pyinstaller to enable the download and usage of the application on any system without requiring any python IDE.
Using discord webhook it get instant updates about user’s progress.
Using Selenium and webdriver’s to automate online or web-based tasks relevant to the concept of a goal manager.