Chapter 01
Open for Business
Plan the duka app, set up the project and write the first menu your shopkeeper will see.
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Python Intermediate: Build a Duka Manager
Build a shopkeeper's app for a real Kenyan duka: track stock, record sales and print receipts. Your program saves its data with files and JSON so it remembers everything between days — then runs a boss report on demand. Assumes basic Python.
Has finished at least one project
What you'll learn
- Save your shop's data with files and JSON so it remembers everything between runs
- Store products, prices and stock together using dictionaries
- Model real records with nested data, like a proper stock book
- Turn saved data into reports: totals, stock levels and best-sellers
- Print a formatted sales receipt from stored data
- Debug your own code and organise it into modules
The course journey
What your child will explore
Follow the course from the first idea to the finished project.
- Chapter 02
The Smart Price List
Meet the dictionary: keep every product's price in one place and look any of them up instantly.
- Chapter 03
The Stock Book
Nest dictionaries so each product carries its price and stock together — a real shop's stock book, in code.
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