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Languages, Libraries, and Technologies

• Python
• pandas
• zpl

Project Overview

This project was my solution to keeping accountability of Chromebook Chargers. The customer was spending too much replacing chargers for student devices. My solution was to create our own labels with qrcodes. This made it easier to keep accountability of the chargers and hold students accountable for their chargers.

The program uses pandas to load CSVs from our asset management system to aquire the serial number of school devices. I used a simple join to seperate devices by homeroom since these devices are assigned to students. This allowed staff to go to homeroom classes and efficiently apply the labels.

Challenges

In this case, programming was the easy part. Finding a solution and selling my programmatic way was the challenge. The initial thought was they would be handed a roll of labels and have to spend time tracking down students to apply the labels. My program took care of their concerns.