Project Set-up

Before writing any logic, the project starts with importing the two things it depends on, sqlite3 for the database and datetime for capturing dates during attendance.

import sqlite3
from datetime import date

sqlite3 is Python's built in library to work with SQLite databases, so nothing extra needs to be installed. The date class from datetime is used later to automatically fetch today's date whenever attendance is marked, so the user never has to type it manually.