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Now it's finally time to put all of our skills to use by creating our automated

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birthday wisher

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which is going to send our family or friends

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a "Happy Birthday" email on their birthday automatically.

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Now the idea for this project actually came from my mum. Well,

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inadvertently.

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Now I love my mom to death and she is my biggest source of motivation and

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inspiration. But on her birthday,

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she always expects me to send her some form of "Happy Birthday" by like 8:00 AM

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And

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if I send her a message at, like, 8:05,

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or 9 o'clock, God forbid,

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then I am deemed as a *bad child*.

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I don't know if this is true for you. Um,

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maybe other Asian kids out there can relate,

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but my mom has this thing about being wished a "happy birthday" promptly on her

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birthday. And you know, I always remember her birthday,

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but I just might remember it at 10 o'clock or, you know, at lunchtime.

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And I always panic, um, thinking that I've forgotten or missed

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the crucial eight o'clock in the morning time slot.

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So what did I decide to do?

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Um,

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I decided to use Python to create a automated way of wishing her a happy

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birthday at 8:00 AM on the spot or even seven o'clock or five o'clock. That way

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she'll think that I wake up really early and

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I am working really hard in life. But

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let me demonstrate to you what this app is going to do. This is the birthday

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wisher demo,

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and I'm not going to show you the code in my main.py cause that is what

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you're going to create.

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But what I've got here is a CSV file called birthdays.csv.

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Now, here, I'm going to change one of these rows of data to test it.

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And I'm going to change the month to the current month

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which is July and the day to the current day, which has 14.

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So I'll change this

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which corresponds to this column of data to 7 and then the day to 14.

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And then I'm going to hit save to save that data.

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And now I'm going to run this code

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and what it will do is it'll check against all of these dates inside my

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birthdays.csv,

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it'll find that one of these rows of data actually has a month and day that

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matches today.

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And it will pick a random letter from one of these text files and replace this

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name

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placeholder with the name of the row of data that actually matched today's

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date. And then it's going to send that as an email to this email.

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So now if I go ahead and hit run,

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and once that process is finished, we can go and check our email.

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And you can see that email show up here with a subject line of Happy Birthday!,

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and it's replaced the name of the person whose birthday it is right here inside

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that name placeholder, it sent the rest of the message

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and this was all done automatically. As you can imagine,

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if I change this back to a random date,

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if our code was running in the background every single day

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checking to see if today's date matched one of these dates,

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then the day when it actually matches or on their birthday,

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it's going to pick out their name, insert it into one of these letters randomly,

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and then send it to them as an email.

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And the reason why we have three letters is just because so that they don't

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actually clock onto the fact that it's the same letter being sent every single

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year.

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The ethics of this whole project is really up to you to decide. Um,

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I don't actually do this in reality. Um,

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I just live with being told I'm a bad child by wishing my mom happy birthday at

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10:00 AM instead of 8:00 AM. But in terms of Python Programming,

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this is going to be a really interesting project because it's going to use a lot

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of the things that you've learned before

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like pandas to read CSVs or replacing texts,

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doing mail merge, using built in Python

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ways of opening and reading files, and also of course what we learned recently

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which is the datetime module and the smtplib.

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Now the starting project I've split into three difficulty levels.

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So depending on how comfortable you feel with the things that you've learned in

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all of these 32 days,

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you can pick which level of starting project you want to use.

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Obviously, if you go for the extra hard starting project,

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it's not going to have a lot of hints in there.

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It's going to tell you generally what the program needs to do

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and it's your job to figure out how to actually implement it using maybe a

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Google search or Stack Overflow or looking through some of the path lessons.

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This is going to be the extra hard version.

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And then there's the hard version with some hints, but not a lot.

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And there's the normal version where I've put in a lot more hints that will make

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it a little bit easier for you to write out all the code.

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So depending on how confident you feel, head over to the course resources,

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pic the difficulty level for your starting project

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and then go ahead and try to complete this project.