2 Python Beginner Projects Tutorial in 15 minutes - Digital clock & Analog clock

In this beginner python project tutorial we will be creating 2 complete Python projects using Python's GUI - Tkinter module!
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This beginner python tutorial is divided into 2 sections:
Digital clock using Tkinter GUI module in Python:
In this section, we create a Tkinter GUI window and add a label text which represents the time. Using the time module of Python, we get the current time and update the Python label.

Analog clock using Tkinter GUI module in Python
In this section, we create a Tkinter GUI window and add an analog clock's image background. Then we will use Tkinter Canvas class to draw the image and lines in front of the image which will represent the seconds hand, minutes hand and hours hand of our analog python clock. Using the time module of Python, we get the current time and update the Python label. We'll update the position of the clock hands using the mathematical formula that is visually described in the video.

Code for both analog python clock(including the clock dial image) and the digital python clock can be found in my GitHub repo here:

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Animation library that I'm using is 3blue1brown's manim library.

It's a really cool library, so do check it out and also make sure to checkout 3blue1brown's YouTube channel as well where you can see the coolest implementations of the manim library:

Music used
Quiet Place by Jonny Easton
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[therealrxyang]

Massivly underrated channel. Keep up the good work👍

[koimipoimi]

Excellent video man, you explained the math behind this really well. Cheers!

[MD-kbzt]

Thank you, this works very well. I'd make one suggestion, though. The hour hand sticks only to the current hour and does not move naturally like a regular clock. To fix this, you can change the hours_x to be
"hours_x = hours_hand_len * math.sin(math.radians(hours *30 + 0.5 *minutes)) + center_x" and hours_y to
"hours_y = -1 * hours_hand_len * math.cos(math.radians(hours *30 + 0.5 *minutes)) + center_y". I use 0.5 because the hours hand must move 30 degrees in 60 minutes hence 30degrees / 60 min = 0.5 degrees every minute
This is how I did it however, I'm wondering if you could use seconds instead of minutes for an even more accurate representation.

[shreyask.p]

Thanks a lot, this has really peaked my interest quite a bit, i am willing to learn this module.
this small project of yours really helped, keep up the good work

[jaguelo]

The problem with analog clock is that the hour hand does not move when the minute hand moves. So it it is 4:30, the hour hand still pointing at 4 when it should point between 4 and 5.

[Tejasvanaparthy]

This was explained very well, Thank you!

[greatthingstechno]

I make digital clock ITS WORKED WELL
THANK YOU

[technicalengineer]

Hello Bro thank you for video. All them work exlantly

[kaminirathi]

my needle is moving anti-clock wise what can be the fault ?

[veerpratapsingh]

thanks a lot bro
other videos never ran

[nalajalabhuvana]

can we work with vscode instead pycharm

[PravinTalentKid]

bro can you pls help the issue (error) AttributeError: module 'tkinter' has no attribute 'label'

[rethiszeno]

thanks that awesome video, but why the code isn't working
canvas.pack(expand=True, fill='both')

[KarthikKarthik-lgye]

How to convert the clock program to py to exe file and there is a problem like UPX is not available.while converting this py to exe file how to convert it py to exe in command prompt.

[christopherchastain]

I have the clock image saved on the desktop but it won't load says "cannot resolve file". No long valid, Here is the code I have: # create background
bg =
canvas.create_image(200., 200, image=bg). Any suggestions?

[YamunaDharavath]

When we converting to digital to analog thrn u r click on a dial_400.png u get clock image how should I create sir from where I should create that can u reply please

[ryanmichelson]

I followed this step by step and the hands are not moving for me???

[krishchauhan]

Bro how to save it and how to create a analog

[shahulhameedmohamedminsar]

In a clock how we get microsecond counting

[Flurryface_]

Please how did you put your multiplication sign