Daily-Programming

Slow day. Didn’t do anything. Only finished one chapter from Lutz.

It’s been 40 days and somehow I don’t feel like I’ve come all that far. Yet, I know the only way I can make progress is by taking small steps. Two more chapters done from the Lutz book. Boy, is he thorough! Will be reading about String Fundamentals today. Also, ran across this inspirational post yesterday. This along with Kushal’s (always generous) advice1 that I should start tinkering with stuff, makes me wonder if I should also do the #100DaysOfCode challenge, with Python....

 Alright, speed reading Lutz is a little bit of an over statement :P But four chapters done and working towards finishing it. Love the comprehensive treatment of Python. Would love to see an update to the book, since Mark’s such a wonderful teacher, but that doesn’t seem likely. Mark does religiously update here though. This will always serve as an excellent foundational resource....

Speed read the PYM book. Kushal covers a vast subject in a really compressed, yet concise way. Next up to speed read, Lutz’s Learning Python. Started using Vim as my primary editor. Trying to get fluent.

Two days off, two days watching Python videos

Watched Python videos

Got back on the Python horse. Using the PYM book to learn along, in the DGPLUG Summer Training. Installed MU. Hanging on for dear life and trying to follow along.

I finally got tired of rebuilding my servers from scratch everytime. It hadn’t troubled me enough to do something about it, until recently. I got myself a pc to do linux development on and I keep nuking the os and reinstalling. Rebuilding it over and over was exciting in the beginning and then it sudddenly began to grate on my nerves. So I decided to put in my twenty hours after my break and learn Ansible....

As you know, I’m struggling to learn programming. The break has done some good. I realised I’m overthinking this and I should just put my head down and do a little everyday. I realised the the basic concepts aren’t that many and I just need to get fluent with them. I just assumed that it was all so vast that I couldn’t wrapt my head around it. Maybe it is, but everything has a seed....

A big thank you to Farhaan Bukhsh, who’s been kind and generous enough to let me steal his work and his words Day 0 “This is awesome! This is so awesome!”, these were was my reactions as I boarded my first flight to Delhi. I was having trouble finding proper accommodation. Kushal, Sayan and Chandan helped me a lot there. I finally got the honour of bunking with Sayan, Subho and Rtnpro....