Spooky-To-Do List

Inspiration

Scary games and programs that seem normal but progressively become stranger and mess with the user, like KintoPet

What it does

This is a simple to do list that's capable of adding, deleting, saving, loading, and clearing tasks. However, randomly throughout the program, random "scary" events will happen. For example, your tasks will be renamed to something unusual, attempting to close the program will give weird messages, scary images will pop up every now and then, etc.

How we built it

This program was coded entirely in Python using Tkinter to create the GUI. It also uses random and time imports for some of its functionality.

Challenges we ran into

This was the first time any of us had created an actual program with an interface so we had to figure that out. We considered using Flask, Django, and Flutter but settled on Tkinter for its ease of use and time constraints.

Additionally, we weren't all super knowledgeable on Python and had very basic programing experience, so there was a bit of a learning curve to get us all on the same page.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud that we made something that at least resembles an application. Again, we had never made anything like this before so being able to create something functional and presentable was a real highlight for us.

What we learned

• How to create a simple GUI
• How to download different libraries and update Python through the terminal

What's next for Spooky-To-Do List

Though we're very proud of the outcome, some feature were left out of the final app due to time constraints and our limitations. For example, we considered adding objects that would move across the screen and having scary music and audio clips play at random times. Even though we missed out on adding those, It would be fun to go back and add those features later on, along with cleaning up the GUI and making it look neater!

Built With

• python
• tkinter
• visual-studio