📅 2025-06-26 — Session: Developed Student Report System with PDF Export

🕒 04:55–05:50
🏷️ Labels: Python, PDF, Dataframe, Weasyprint, CSS, Jupyter
📂 Project: Teaching
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to develop a comprehensive student-specific reporting system that generates individual reports using Python and exports them as PDFs.

Key Activities:

  • Designed a structured plan to generate student reports using Python DataFrames.
  • Created a custom Jupyter report template for student performance, formatted in HTML.
  • Improved DataFrame indexing for efficient data processing.
  • Implemented PDF export functionality using WeasyPrint, including error correction and CSS styling for better aesthetics.
  • Clarified the use of different HTML classes for PDF generation and Jupyter rendering.
  • Enhanced report styling with CSS for improved readability and professional appearance.
  • Developed a script using PyPDF2 to merge multiple PDFs.

Achievements:

  • Successfully created a system to generate and export student reports as PDFs with enhanced styling and error handling.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further refine the CSS for report aesthetics and explore additional automation opportunities for report generation.