Greetings. 

I'm new to both the forum and to Python. In fact, I probably wouldn't have a desire for any of this were it not for an idea that I had for work. 

We use these old 10-key calculators to take inventory and they're constantly breaking. So, like an idiot, I had an idea - why not build a version of that with Raspberry Pi 3 and Python and then we could reduce cost while having repairs be both in-house and modular, and step away from proprietary and expensive software and just extract our data into Access / Excel like a normal rational person. I've noticed that the Python syntax is really straightforward and reminds me a lot of VBA and how I structure functions in Excel (which is more my wheelhouse than anything else at the moment). 

So.... here I am.... burning in like a rock through the atmosphere, ready to learn Python and a few other things I never knew I wanted to know. 

Ambitious? probably. 

Attainable in a six to seven month scope? probably not.