Coin collection manager with a GUI interface
This documentation is still work in progress... check back soon for an updated version. in the meanwhile...
This repository contains a very simple coin collection manager that will help you to keep track of the coins in your collection. It is designed to be a learning excercise to create a Graphical User Interface (GUI) while also exploring the database and file management capabilities of python.
The application is intended to run on a raspberry pi but it should be portable to other python platforms as it relies solely on standard python libraries:
- Tkinter
- Sqlite
- Pandas
The application is ready to go! Just clone this repository, launch the python IDLE, open the file coins_gui.py and execute it. That's it.
A sample database (coins.db) and the list of countries (countries.csv) with all the infomation you need has been provided.
The application uses tkinter to create the GUI, this includes graphical widgets such as:
- Frames
- Buttons
- Scrollbars
- Combobox
- Label frames
- Labels
- Input fields
- Menus
- Messageboxes
The application uses SQLITE to handle the coins database. The information stored in database is:
- Code: Automatically handled
- Country: Where the coin is from
- Value: Coin value
- Year: When the coin was minted
- Age: (Calculated) How old is the coin
The application uses PANDAS to create a dataframe from a CSV file with the countries list (used in a combobox)
Glad you ask! yes! there is an extra program: coins.py which is a text-based version of the coin manager. it has an interesting extra feature: COIN MAP that will create an interactive map with markers on the countries where you have coins from.
There is a little catch: for this feature to work you will need to install folium it is a very simple process and you can find the installation process in the www.raspberrypi.org page.