I have been at this an hour daily for four days now. It just is not clicking for me. One thing is for sure, this Talk Python course is definitely going to take longer than a hundred days! I don’t know whether to be ashamed or proud. Best to be unashamedly persistent, I guess. More work, tomorrow.
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. ...
Did I need to read a fifteen hundred page book to learn Python? At the end of fourteen hundred pages, I can safely assure you, I did not. If you want to just solve your pressing issues or scratch your itch, or just plain get started with programming (and programming in Python specifically), I’d recommend starting with a simple, fast paced book, like Python for you and me, and then doing tons of practice.1 ...