#100DaysOfCode, Day 006

Today I really understood what deliberate practice was all about. What did I do today? Wrote and ran the birthday app I watched yesterday. It’s a simple app that asks you for your birthday and then tells you, how many days to or since your birthday. What did I learn? I spent at least 30 minutes hunting down and looking up errors, caused by a tiny typo. I ought to be more careful. On the other hand, while I know the basic syntax, my python vocabulary isn’t large enough yet. I still need to see what my 80/20 ratio of fluency to lookup will be. Right now I am looking up everything. I am beginning to think of programming as cooking. It’s a really good analogy and it makes programming a lot less intimidating. And finally I actually figured what deliberate practice was all about. I worked at a hard enough task that was just out of reach. As opposed to times in the past where stuff was too easy or frighteningly hard. This is a really good space to work in. My head still hurts, but it hurts in a good way 🙂 Onwards … ...

November 8, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

#100DaysOfCode, Day 005

Happy Deepavali folks :) Had an easy day today. The slog yesterday paid off! What did I do today? Finished the Guess the number game app. Watched videos for the next one, the Birthday Countdown App. What did I learn? Have to be wary with while loops and where I choose to exit them. Also I should always initialise them with some value that is not in the answer / solution range. I can break my code into functional pieces. This piece of code doing one thing and that one doing that. These little mini programs of code are called … functions. I felt like Hansa when I realised this. When you ask the user for any input, it’ll always come in as a string. You need to convert it, to the format you need. Onwards … ...

November 7, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

#100DaysOfCode, Day 004

Realised I am woefully underprepared for the #100DaysOfCode in Python course. That does not mean that I’m going to give up on the project however. I am just dropping down and getting fluent with the basics with the Python Jumpstart course. I aim (very optimistically) to complete an app every 3 days. This should give me #130DaysOfCode 😂 What did I do today? I finished App 1: Hello (you Pythonic) world Done with the videos for App 2: Guess that number game. What did I learn? ...

November 6, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

#100DaysOfCode, Day 003

Horrible day. Could not crack Bite 7. Did however finally crack Bite 67 after a lot of head scratching. Have come slowly to the terrifying realisation that I’ve bitten off a whole lot more than I can chew. Forget thinking Pythonically, I cannot even think programattically. But then, c’est la vie. I’ll just put in my hours diligently and let the learning come gradually.

November 5, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

#100DaysOfCode, Day 002

Worked an hour with these exercises. Still struggling mightily. Only got one done. Still. Did an hour. Did not die despite tearing my hair out. 1 Live to code another day It was fun though :) ↩︎

November 4, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

#100DaysOfCode, Day 001

Getting back to studies. Putting in the time to do 12th, so won’t have time to do programming. However programming is the goal, so I commit to putting an hour daily. Whether I finish a project is moot now after so many failures. Ergo time is the only thing I can measure progress in. An hour a day. For a hundred days. Rather than doing something self directed, am following Talk Python’s, #100DaysOfCode in Python. ...

November 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza