period and fertility calculator
calculate the next period date and the fertile days
This project appeared by pure chance on my previous week’s todo list. I was studying for the Python Certified Associate Programmer [PCAP] certification and was learning about the calendar package and its modules, functions and all that. I then took a short coffee break and told my girlfriend that I could build her an useful app. She didn’t think twice and started giving me the requirements for this app: it should do this, and that, and you also have to consider this. The rest is history. I spent the next two evenings and the following weekend working on the Python script. Once that was done and over I decided that the best way to make this program easily available to everybody, including my girlfriend, was to make it publicly accesible. For this I asked a dear colleague of mine to assist me in creating a subdomain for my nginx web-server. I then had to learn the basics of Flask in order to rewrite the program as a Flask app, grab a nice CSS template from the guys over at PicoCSS and put together some basic JavaScript for the form data using ChatGPT.
Voilà !
The result is now hosted here Period and Fertility Calendar Calculator and you can also see it in the two screenshots below.
