doomsday-trainer 0.4.4

Training tool for the Doomsday method.

doomsday-trainer

A simple GUI program for exercising the ability to calculate the day of week for a given date (Gregorian calendar).

The name is taken from the Doomsday rule - an algorithm devised by John Conway in 1973 for this specific purpose.

Dependencies

• Python 3.7+

• tkinter (Installation instructions)

Installation

pip install doomsday-trainer

Usage

usage: doomsday-trainer [-h] [--start-year START_YEAR] [--end-year END_YEAR]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --start-year START_YEAR
                        Start year [1800]
  --end-year END_YEAR   End year [2099]

Installation from source (using Poetry)

git clone https://github.com/cbernander/doomsday-trainer.git
cd doomsday-trainer
poetry build
pip install dist/doomsday_trainer-*.whl

tkinter installation

macOS

$ brew install python-tk

Ubuntu / Debian

$ sudo apt get install python3-tk

Arch Linux

$ sudo pacman -S tk

Fedora

$ sudo dnf install python3-tkinter

RHEL / CentOS / Oracle Linux

$ sudo yum install -y tkinter tk-devel

Development tools

• Poetry for dependency management and packaging.

• tox for testing.

• Black for code formatting.

• GUI built using PySimpleGUI