Approach Teller - Gemini AI 🚀

A simple desktop app that uses Google Gemini AI to suggest step-by-step approaches for coding problems. This project was built as a fun learning exercise to understand how AI APIs can be integrated into Python GUI applications.

Features ✨

• 🖥️ Modern, clean GUI built with CustomTkinter
• 🤖 Asks Gemini AI for both brute-force and optimized approaches to coding questions
• 🚫 No code or explanations—just concise, actionable steps
• ⚠️ Error handling for API issues

How It Works 🛠️

1. ✍️ Enter your coding question in the input box.
2. 👉 Click Get Approach.
3. 🤩 The app queries Gemini AI and displays two styles of solution steps: brute-force and optimized.

Setup & Installation 🧑‍💻

1. Clone the repository

git clone <repo-url>
cd <project-folder>

2. Install dependencies

• 🐍 Python 3.7+
• CustomTkinter:

  pip install customtkinter
  

• google-generativeai:

  pip install google-generativeai
  

3. Get a Gemini API Key 🔑

• Sign up for Gemini API access from Google (see official docs).
• Save your API key in a file named .apikey in the project root (same folder as main_gui.py). The file should contain only your API key, nothing else.

4. Run the app ▶️

python main_gui.py

Why This Project? 🤔

This was a simple, fun project to learn how to connect Python apps to AI APIs and build modern GUIs. It helped me understand API integration, prompt engineering, and error handling in a real-world context. The project is intentionally minimal—just enough to demonstrate the core idea and make learning enjoyable!

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