Technical Areas:
- I learned how to use the Selenium webdriver, and picked up a (very basic) understanding of HTML and CSS.
- I have a better grasp on BeautifulSoup now, and it has helped me preprocess data better than before.
- I learned how to generate CSVs from website data.
Tools: VS Code, IDLE, Selenium webdriver
Soft Skills:
- I got better at finding resources/documentation for the (steadily increasing) Python libraries that the tutorials have introduced me to.
Achievement Highlights:
- I used the tutorials to scrape data from some of my own old websites.
- I learned how to use Selenium and Chrome’s inspect feature to extract text data from websites and also interact with some site elements.
- I got more familiar with HTML, and Python in VSCode and IDLE. I also finally understood how to use pip and how PATH works (this isn’t as important but I’d never quite understood how they actually worked.)