Programming

Decided to watch the videos for day 4 since I am a day behind. The exercises look complicated, but the collections module looks like a real time saver. Will give it a go tomorrow.

Worked an hour for the past two days, exerting all of my python knowledge at the small project they gave me. Try as I might, I could not do it. So looked at the solution. And realised, while it was all logical, I couldn’t for the life of me have written that code on my own. Long way to travel. Lots of work to do.

Watched videos for the tiny projects to do over the next two days. We begin with a date/time project. Python has objects (primitives) to deal with dates and times. They are part of the datetime module, which is part of the Python Standard Library. I learnt that I could add and subtract and otherwise modify dates, easily if my date data was in this format. Will play more with this tomorrow. ...

Ok, the last time I tried this, life got in my way. Second time lucky? Last time, I crashed and burned. So, to quote Rascal Flatts, On your knees you look up Decide you’ve had enough You get mad, you get strong Wipe your hands, shake it off Then you stand. … Every time you get up And get back in the race One more small piece of you Starts to fall into place. ...

French The app! the cursed app! Just did the bare minimum today. Programming Practice Didn’t waste tooooo much time today :) Manged to figure out what was actually asked for in Python terms and wrote it down as instructions in the file. working at slowly converting them to code now. All the fussing I did over fonts and setting things up yesterday paid off. The editor has receded to tho background and I can just work. I made progress with the program today. only a tiny bit left. Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Applications The fourth app kicked my butt. got it working, but it was really hard going. done for this week. will attempt next week

French The app is now buggy, since the last update and crashes on me all the time. Am at it though. Python Practice This is stupid. I spent an hour just setting up my environment all over again. This should teach me to do at least a little bit every day. 1 hour of setup 1 hour of tremendous headscratching No practical reasults. Tomorrow hopefully is a better day. The only positive thing is I feel, my mind has begun to crank again. Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Applications Started watching the videos. Built three tiny apps in rapid succession. Getting my python mojo back. Run out of steam after 3 hours. Ending on a high note, though. will pick up the pieces tomorrow.