[melbourne-pug] General hello and request for help

[Peter Isaac]

Hello Melbourne PUG,

Firstly, many thanks to all those who have gone before to explore the world
of Python and then generously made their time and knowledge available to us
who stumble along behind.  And apologies in advance if the MPUG mailing
list is not the appropriate place for this post, any guidance to a more
appropriate forum would be gratefully received.

Some background.  Over the years, I have written a modest but useful
program (see https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro) that is used by a small
community of ecosystem researchers to process data from measurement sites
around Australia.  It uses a very basic, rather ugly Tkinter GUI to control
the work flow and the user must also edit text INI-style files to configure
the processing options for their site.  While the original program made a
huge difference to the ability of the community to process data from their
sites, its general clunkiness has now become the limiting factor to it
being more widely adopted and to improving its utility.  At the same time,
I am coming up against my own limits in terms of Python programming ability
(I'm a scientist not a programmer) and recognise that I need to change my
approach from a procedural style, resulting from my history of Fortran and
IDL, to an object-oriented style.

To make this transition, I'm looking for a tutor who can help me in the
following areas:

   1. Integrate the separate components of the existing application
   (editing text files, controlling work flow, logging messages from the code
   to a console window) into a single GUI.
   2. Replace the existing rudimentary Tkinter GUI with a more friendly one
   (I'm leaning towards PyQt).
   3. Transition my own thinking from procedural-based programming to a
   more OO approach so that over time I can re-factor the existing code to
   make it more robust and easier to maintain.

I'm in the SE suburbs, willing to travel or to do remote sessions (Zoom,
Skype, Hangouts etc) and have a small amount of money I can put towards
this project.

Many thanks for any help.

Best regards,
Peter

-- 
Peter Isaac
Ph: +61 3 59685998
Mob: 0429053970
Skype: pisaac.ozflux
Email: pisaac.ozflux at gmail.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/melbourne-pug/attachments/20171228/e48b1cda/attachment.html>