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Happy Deepavali folks :) Had an easy day today. The slog yesterday paid off! What did I do today? Finished the Guess the number game app. Watched videos for the next one, the Birthday Countdown App. What did I learn? Have to be wary with while loops and where I choose to exit them. Also I should always initialise them with some value that is not in the answer / solution range. I can break my code into functional pieces. This piece of code doing one thing and that one doing that. These little mini programs of code are called … functions. I felt like Hansa when I realised this. When you ask the user for any input, it’ll always come in as a string. You need to convert it, to the format you need. Onwards … ...

Realised I am woefully underprepared for the #100DaysOfCode in Python course. That does not mean that I’m going to give up on the project however. I am just dropping down and getting fluent with the basics with the Python Jumpstart course. I aim (very optimistically) to complete an app every 3 days. This should give me #130DaysOfCode 😂 What did I do today? I finished App 1: Hello (you Pythonic) world Done with the videos for App 2: Guess that number game. What did I learn? ...

Horrible day. Could not crack Bite 7. Did however finally crack Bite 67 after a lot of head scratching. Have come slowly to the terrifying realisation that I’ve bitten off a whole lot more than I can chew. Forget thinking Pythonically, I cannot even think programattically. But then, c’est la vie. I’ll just put in my hours diligently and let the learning come gradually.

Worked an hour with these exercises. Still struggling mightily. Only got one done. Still. Did an hour. Did not die despite tearing my hair out. 1 Live to code another day It was fun though :) ↩︎

Getting back to studies. Putting in the time to do 12th, so won’t have time to do programming. However programming is the goal, so I commit to putting an hour daily. Whether I finish a project is moot now after so many failures. Ergo time is the only thing I can measure progress in. An hour a day. For a hundred days. Rather than doing something self directed, am following Talk Python’s, #100DaysOfCode in Python. ...

Been trying too long to host an RSS server that’d work with Reeder. Too complicated and too janky for me as of now. For now, I’m happy to let the pros handle it and will happily stick to FeedHQ. Time will either increase my tech skills or make me content using web aggregators instead of dedicated clients. Let’s see.