#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 … ...