The goal of this blog post is to guide you to build an app in python. Some people get scared when they hear “app”, don’t worry, I don’t think the app will pass 100 lines.

Introducing YALMA

YALMA (Yet Another Link Manager App) is a link manager build with python. Check this page out for an example of how it looks like; https://gist.github.com/Arfs6/60e0539ab49d83e12c5bf6e7c401fefb. The main aim of the app is to accept and store links. For example, you can store the above link in the app and give it the name “YALMA Example”. Then when next you need it, you can just open YALMA and ask for it.

Resources

You might need some resources to be able to do some steps. I don’t think me writing it will be a good idea, because of time, and there are lots of excellent resources out there. So, what I am planning to do is to get links to those resources and add it to each step.

Steps

All the solution to the steps should be in one python file.

Step 1 - Welcome your user

A nice welcome message to your user is a plus always. Welcome your user and explain briefly what YALMA is:

  1. Display YALMA followed by a new line. Use tab character to shift it a little to the right.
  2. Display a brief explanation of what YALMA is: A link manager.

Example

This is what you should get when you run your code.

	YALMA
A link manager.

Tip: A tab character is represented by \t in python, It should be in a string.

Step 2 - Create link

Let’s write the code to create a link:

  1. Create a function create_link.
  2. It should prompt the user for a name for the link.
  3. It should prompt the user for the link to store.
  4. Store both the name and the link provided above in a dictionary. The key should be name and url for the name and link respectively.
  5. Return the created dictionary.
  6. For testing purposes, call the function and print what the function returns. This will be removed later.

Example

	YALMA
A link manager.
What is the name of the link? Abdulqadir Ahmad's website
What is the URL (link) of the link? https://arfs6.me
{'name': "Abdulqadir Ahmad's website", 'url': 'https://arfs6.me'}

Step 3 - Showing links

Now that we have a function that creates a link, let’s create a function that displays all our links.

  1. Create a function display_links that has one parameter, links => def display_links(links):
    • If the list of links passed is empty, display No links yet. to the user.

    • If the list has some elements in it, loop through all the elements and print it in a nice way. Each element is a dictionary created with the create_link function.

      E.G.

      1. Name: <name_of_link>

      ` Link: <url_of_link>`

      Where 1 is the number of the link, <name_of_link> is the name of the link and <url_of_link> is the url of the link.

  2. For testing:
    • Delete the testing line of step 2 that calls create_link.
    • Create an empty list and store it in a variable links.
    • Call display_links and pass it links created above.
    • Call create_link and append what it returns to your links list created above.
    • Call display_links from above and pass it the links variable.
    • Repeate the above two instructions.

Example

	YALMA
A link manager.
No links yet.
What is the name of the link? Abdulqadir Ahmad's website
What is the URL (link) of the link? https://arfs6.me
1. Name: Abdulqadir Ahmad's website
	Link: https://arfs6.me
What is the name of the link? Chat GPT
What is the URL (link) of the link? https://chat.openai.com
1. Name: Abdulqadir Ahmad's website
	Link: https://arfs6.me
2. Name: Chat GPT
	Link: https://chat.openai.com

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