Updates: Done with the whole first lesson in Gtypist today! All 8 levels! Yippee! Finished another baby app, that tells you how many days to your birthday. Finished up, chapter 8 of the Lutz book. Dictionaries make so much more sense now.
Updates: 15 mins each, of Gtypist & Vim done
Upgraded to Nikola v8, b3 today. And now, I realise the amount of stress, virtual environments like conda and pip, alleviate. All I had to do was backup my blog, create a new nikola environment and run it against the blog folder. And while everything went well, I rested easy knowing that I could get everything back to the way it was :) Updates: Last Vim update. Am fairly ok with using it as my daily text editor now. And the anki deck is almost committed to memory. Think my twenty hours are done today :) Done with 15 mins of gtypist. Getting slowly better. Done with watching 5 chapters of the Jumpstart course. Will practice them tomorrow.
It’s taken me 50 days to somehow figure out a way to study. I still feel like Sisyphus. But I realise now, that I have the map. The land isn’t large and unknown as I feared earlier. I just need to keep my head down and take it step by step. Updates: 09.45 – gtypist improves slowly by the day. Getting better, yet stretching 14.15 – vim moves ahead well!
Back to office, still feel funny, so taking it easy. Updates: 15.00 – Done with all the new cards in the Vim Anki Deck. A few more days and I think I’ll drop Vim from the updates. While I’ll never be as fast or productive as other Vim speed demons, that’s not what I’m aiming for anyhoo. I just want to be as fast and error free as I was with DOS edit in the late 90s :P 15:30 – Slower but more accurate with gtypist today. Got half of Chapter 7 in the Lutz book done Watched the video for App 3 in the Jumpstart Python course ...
One way you realise you are making progress is when you realise you’re using the skills you learn elsewhere too. Finished my duolingo session today with my raw “asdf” touch typing skills. I’m slowly internalising touch typing. Stil quite aways to go, though :) Updates: 13.00, Did Vim Anki and used touch typing there too 14.45, 15 mins of gtypist. Loving it now, despite the pain it causes :) 15.00, Beginning Lutz Chapter 4, NUmbers in Action Overloading and Polymorphism, Python itself overloads some opertaors such that they perform different actions depending on the type of buily-in objects being processed. For example, the + operator performs addition when applied to numbers but concatenation when applied to sequence objects like strings and lists. This property is usually called polymorphism 22.00, Chapter 6 of the Lutz book done. It’s a small one called A Dynamic Interlude, but it cleared so many huhs for me. ...