Python

How do I begin this post? By simply beginning :) Again! This probably is the fourth (or is it fifth) time, I’ll be attempting to learn how to program. And probably the same number of attempts at #100DaysOfCode. I did 47 days last time and 37 days before that. I will try my utmost to go the distance this time. Because even if I didn’t complete a full run, I still learnt tonnes from all my previous efforts. I do have a beginner’s grasp of Python. And I hope get even better, much better, this time. ...

Life is really kicking my butt right now. And the 12th studies are not making it any easier. So am temporarily giving up on A Hundred Days of Code, again. Hopefully, I will have the time to give Python, in a month. In the meanwhile, with the limited time I do have, I’d like to learn me some Emacs. Will write about it everyday.

Lost a friend to the virus last night. And a shit-ton of personal issues have cropped up at the same time. Need to go handle and process all of this. Will be back, when I am back.

Follow my whole plodding, Flask journey here. Crashed and burned even harder today. Tried to retrace my steps and did all the exercises again. I reached, once more, all the way upto the forms chapter and it just does not work. Now it won’t even display my login page. Was it worth doing? Oh yes. I gained a much better understanding of how Flask works, of what is required where. Will work once more at the login page tomorrow. ...

Follow my whole plodding flask journey here.. Am still stuck at where I was yesterday. But made a tiny bit of progress. Yesterday, it would not even submit the form. And now I got it to do that. How? I had forgotten to close the form tag. Now while I see that it is posting perfectly in the terminal, I cannot get it to reply with a message saying that I indeed have logged in. ...

Follow my whole plodding journey here. Wrote a basic login form today. Short story short, it shows up, but it does not respond like Miguel shows in the course. It justs sits there … staring back at me … like an obstinate goat. Will go spelunking into what I could have done wrong, tomorrow. Learnt about adding routes and creating views and making templates. Thoroughly confused though. While I am dumbly following instructions right now, what I don’t get, is what do I need to write first? It all seems very circular to me. What comes first? The route, the form, the template, the chicken or the egg? ...