Just did the MIT course all day today, because my next problem set is due tonight and I did not want to fall behind again. Got distracted a bit, but a lot less than yesterday with the way Nikola renders headers, and youtube videos of sausage making :P Now that I am going through the class, I realise programming is not what I imagined. It is at once, much simpler and a bit more complex than I thought it to be. More than that, I realise I can do this. :) ...
Day 1 is an disaster of fantastical proportions. I did lots of stuff. But I got nothing of consequence done. Save one big thing. I managed to buckle down and study for six hours. That counts as a win, a big one in my book. Will hopefully get more done tomorrow. If you are following this blog, the days might soon seem out of sync. That’s because I’ve decided that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are my days of study. Monday & Tuesday are for work, while Satuday and Sunday are for home and family. I need to practice what I preach and have margins and boundaries in my life. ...
Ok. Time to be a bit honest. As you folks know, I have been trying to learn programming using Python since June 2017, when I joined the 10th cohort of DGPLUG’s Summer Training. And time and again, I have failed. Not just with programming, but with most other projects I tried to do. At the end of my rope, I decided to just quit everything and considered (very seriously) a return to my old stressful career, thinking maybe that is all there is for me. ...
Will Vincent, author of Django for Beginners and Rest APIs with Django has his list of book recommendations for the year. Read the latest posts on his website to get at them. If you are a learner like me and wanted a professionally filtered list, (as in too lazy to go hunt them down), this is a godsend. He covers books on Django, React, Flask, & JavaScript and tutorials for Python, Django & React. Also check out his year in review. ...
I started out with a very vague idea, of learning programming last year. I went to Pycon India, fell in love with the community, decided to learn software, and came home all charged up. (Btw, I was so intimidated, I did not speak to a single soul.) The plan was to sort personal issues, tackle a couple of major work projects so that I could then focus on learning, clear the decks and go full steam ahead come April. ...
Anwesha Das, over at Law Explained India, was one of the speakers at PyCon India 2016. (Update: Anwesha rocked Pycon 2017 in Portland. The awesome folks there, seem to have put up the talks in near real time! Anwesha’s talk is here. Check out the rest, here. End update) And she to me, is a shining beacon of hope, when it comes to actually making it as programmer in this community. All she does, and the way the community responds is heartwarming ...