Programming, Day 50

It’s taken me 50 days to somehow figure out a way to study. I still feel like Sisyphus. But I realise now, that I have the map. The land isn’t large and unknown as I feared earlier. I just need to keep my head down and take it step by step. Updates: 09.45 – gtypist improves slowly by the day. Getting better, yet stretching 14.15 – vim moves ahead well!

August 7, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 49

Back to office, still feel funny, so taking it easy. Updates: 15.00 – Done with all the new cards in the Vim Anki Deck. A few more days and I think I’ll drop Vim from the updates. While I’ll never be as fast or productive as other Vim speed demons, that’s not what I’m aiming for anyhoo. I just want to be as fast and error free as I was with DOS edit in the late 90s :P 15:30 – Slower but more accurate with gtypist today....

August 6, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 48

One way you realise you are making progress is when you realise you’re using the skills you learn elsewhere too. Finished my duolingo session today with my raw “asdf” touch typing skills. I’m slowly internalising touch typing. Stil quite aways to go, though :) Updates: 13.00, Did Vim Anki and used touch typing there too 14.45, 15 mins of gtypist. Loving it now, despite the pain it causes :) 15.00, Beginning Lutz Chapter 4, NUmbers in Action Overloading and Polymorphism, Python itself overloads some opertaors such that they perform different actions depending on the type of buily-in objects being processed....

August 5, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 47

Late start to the day today. Was busy moving a table from mum’s place to mine. This should help my back a lot! Updates: 7p, Getting better with gtypist. 8.15p, Done with Vim 8.20p, No Python Apps tonight 22.33, Just understood the difference between generic sequence operations and methods (my aha for the day!) You can run generic sequence operation across the core object types. For e.g. I can run the len function on strings, or numbers or lists....

August 4, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 46

Am really enjoying practicing Vim and Python syntax with my Anki decks. Will start doing 10 mins of touch typing daily. My young friends in the DGPLUG irc channel, all seem to have gained wings with their typing speeds. Given up on the #100daysofcode for now. Current strategy is to … Read theory (Lutz) Practice programs Ask friends to give me more programs. Updates 2p, Restarting the Lutz book. Got lost....

August 3, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Learning Aha

I’ve been moaning and bitching the past couple of years about how smart I was in my teens and how I could learn any darn thing I set my mind to, then. My school grades did not reflect it though. And these days, my consulting solutions have been top notch, and yet, I struggle to sharpen the saw. What gives? It struck me today, as I finished watching some Python videos along my struggling Python journey, that I was understanding the concepts much better than I had in the past few months....

August 2, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 45

Linode mailed me complaining that average CPU usage was 90% over the past couple of hours! Culprit turned out to be the headless dropbox client I’d installed the day before. Lessson learnt. Switched to periodic rysnc via a cron job. Nothing else done today. Still sick as a dog. Watched a couple of Python tutorials

August 2, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 44

Learnt a new trick to drive home my Vim skills. I use the Anki Deck, and before I answer, I actually try the question out on a document to see if I got it right. Seems to be building muscle memory much faster than I could by just practicing or by just memorising. I love the immediate feedback loop! Should try this out with my math rote exercises too. Charted out a plan for the Lutz book....

August 1, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 43

Guess I’ll call it a day, learning Vim. Done about 16 hours1 of Vim reading and practice. The rest of the 4 hours will come from daily Vim use now. Have begun to use it for darn near everything. Can move about with slight ease and copy & paste with lots of unease. Practice makes perfect, I suppose. Plan for the day, since I’m home sick? Well I’m a gonna swing for the fences and finish the Lutz book....

July 31, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza

Programming, Day 42

Plan: Start doing 20 hours of VIM. Finish another Lutz chapter. Will update progress by days’ end. Updates: 2pm. Got myself a VIM Anki deck. 10pm. Sadly no Lutz today. Practiced Vim all day. Finished Painless Vim. Changed my theme. Recomposed this post in Vim Changed my terminal editor from code to vim, so that all new posts will now be “Vim Powered!”

July 28, 2018 · Mario Jason Braganza