This is an older project that I completed in 2019 while a co-worker and I were learning Python together for the first time, and after completing a set of online tutorials we decided to test ourselves with a final project before moving on to another language. For this final project, I decided to re-use this idea of creating a front-end application that would retrieve Chuck Norris jokes from the Chuck Norris IO API. The set of online tutorials we followed can be found at TutorialsPoint.com.
Running the pyNorris.py module application will present the user with a very simple interface that includes a background picture of Chuck Norris with a speech bubble. The speech bubble will contain some default text encouraging the user to get a new joke. In the bottom left-hand corner of the application are a drop-down and a button.
The drop-down contains a list of available joke categories that the user can select for a specific type of joke they would like to get from the Chuck Norris IO API. The "Get Joke!" button will retrieve a new joke by calling the API and displaying it in the speech bubble.
After retrieving the joke from the API, before displaying the joke in the speech bubble, the joke will be stored in a local SQLite database including some additional metadata from the API and a timestamp when the joke was stored.
