Programming

Done with an introductory Regular Expressions book. Picked up an advanced one. My physio used keep to telling me, that we needed to loosen and pry my hips open to expand my range of motion. These past few days have been the same, with respect to pattern matching using Regular Expressions. These lessons have been prying my brain open to a new way of thinking about words and characters. From the way things are going, I think I will be spending the better part of next week on Regular Expressions too. It’s still hard work, but it’s getting to be enjoyable hard work now. I need to pace myself better and slow down. I burnt myself out this week. ...

Done with Introducing Regular Expressions, by Michael Fitzgerald. The subtitle, of the book says it all. Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-Step Michael is a funny, patient and pithy author. The book breaks down the basics of Regular Expressions into its components and then walks through explaining them in examples, line by painstaking line. Any book that uses Coleridge to teach me Regular Expressions is awesome, so I’m biased :) Definitely worth a read if you are brand new to the powerful world of RegEx. ...

Did this short course to get myself upto speed with Regular Expressions, since the books I was trying to read were not quite doing it for me. It’s short, sweet and extremely thorough. After this I don’t quite know regex, but I’m no longer lost at sea. I’ve now picked up a book and I get what they are talking about now. The book and lots of practice, should get me to where I want to be with Regular Expressions. I’m sweating this, because I’ve realised, this is an important skill, I need to have. ...

Done with the Regular Expressions videos I was watching. Now switched to a book. Hope I am done by tomorrow, so I can get on with what I actually want to do!

Only managed a half hour of learning regex. The day seems to have gone to the dogs. Hope to do better tomorrow!

Did not have much time to study today. Was busy putting out fires at work. Spent an hour learning Regular Expressions though.