Optimized Python and VS Code workflows

📅 2023-02-14 — Session: Optimized Python and VS Code workflows

🕒 15:25–19:35
🏷️ Labels: Python, Vs Code, Pandas, Ubuntu, Whatsapp
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to enhance productivity and efficiency in software development and data manipulation using Python and Visual Studio Code (VS Code).

Key Activities:

• Explored WhatsApp’s ‘Call Phones’ feature to make calls to non-WhatsApp users and discussed workarounds for regions without this feature.
• Disabled GitHub Copilot suggestions and enabled path suggestions in VS Code to improve the coding environment.
• Executed all tests and configured Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code, including setting the default Python interpreter.
• Troubleshot keyboard shortcuts in VS Code and enhanced file search functions in Python.
• Monitored memory usage on Ubuntu and analyzed processes to manage resources effectively.
• Addressed Pandas deprecation warnings by transitioning from append() to concat() and handled potential errors in DataFrame operations.
• Demonstrated directory management in Python using the os module.

Achievements:

• Improved understanding and configuration of VS Code for better development workflows.
• Enhanced Python coding practices, particularly in data manipulation with Pandas.
• Established methods for effective system resource monitoring on Ubuntu.

Pending Tasks:

• Further exploration of WhatsApp’s communication features for business use.
• Continuous monitoring of memory usage trends on Ubuntu to preemptively address potential issues.