Python

Python

Python is something I've been using more and more lately for my hobby projects. It's easy and satisfying to use, even though it has some quirks here and there. 

I mostly use python to create automated tools for myself when AutoHotkey isn't enough for the task, such as creating a web-crawler to collect data or a bot to farm in a game while I do something else. During the summer I've worked on several bots with python and learned quite a bit about python, bots, data gathering and gaming economy of all things. This is because when I started I wanted to create a simple bot for a web based game, where I could collect data and do simple tasks.

I found the game e-sim which was perfect for my intentions, and I started to create a bot to collect data on the market and other players. This was my first experience with a crawler and data gathering online, and it worked out well; I connected it to a google document and stored everything in there. I also used the data to buy and sell items on the market, and after a few weeks I was one of the richest players in the game despite being F2P in a freemium style game.

Another project was to create a bot that could play a game on an emulated android based on image scanning, thus navigating the game and farming for me. This project is still undergoing and the next step is to create an UI and make it more user friendly, however the bot is working and can complete most of the tasks I want it to.

I believe python is something that is really helpful for creating small and simple tools and it has helped me to focus my attention on the results I want, and not create increasingly elaborate solutions.