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Day 20 100 Days of Code

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Today I worked on more of the “46 Simple Python Exercises” and noticed that to complete these, I could have imported work from previous exercises. These are...

Day 19 100 Days of Code

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Despite my intention, I strayed away from the plan to go back to Exercism.io exercises. I tried (and failed) to get a Python Flask application deployed to H...

Day 18 100 Days of Code

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Today’s hour of code was spent completing the tests for the simple Python exercises done earlier this week. So far, that’s thirteen exercises and at least t...

Day 17 100 Days of Code

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Today I spent more time unit testing Python. Remember those easy (not easy) Python exercises from earlier in the week here? I’m adding tests for these. Ev...

Day 16 100 Days of Code

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Switching things up a bit. Still working on some Python exercises, but I’ve switched over to Exercism.io exercises. These are sweet. They come with tests/...

Day 15 100 Days of Code

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Last night I spent a lovely hour with my first love (programming languages), JavaScript.

Day 14 100 Days of Code

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Nothing monumental today; just some good, solid coding exercises from the “46 Simple Python Exercises”. I finished exercise 10 from yesterday, which was a l...

Day 13 - 100 Days of Code (2017)

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It was the exercises again and I managed to get two done. One of them gave me just a little trouble with a return statement (more on that below). The third...

Day 12 100 Days of Code

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Really loving these exercises in Python here. They’re not super easy, I have had to look some stuff up. But they’re not “head-bashing” hard either. So far...

Day 11 100 Days of Code

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Back on track today with some Python problems from HackerRank.

Day 10 - 100 Days of Code (2017)

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And we’re back to taking notes again on Python. Today I finally finished Exercise 22 by going back through the previous exercises and note all the new stuff...

Day 9 - 100 Days of Code (2017)

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Day #8 was a general continuation of Day #7 - more notes - so no blog post on that. But I added an entry to the log here: https://github.com/SFoskitt/100-da...

Day #7 100 Days of Code

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Today I went back to “Learn Python the Hard Way” to complete Exercise 22, which instructs us to take notes and do a review of everything we’ve learned so far...

Day #6 100 Days of Code

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Today I setup a Python websocket server. This is technically for a work project so not 100% compliant with the rules of the 100 Days of Code challenge. How...

Day #5 100 Days of Code

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Almost a whole week done already! This is really going fast.

Day #4 100 Days of Code

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I’m looking at RxJS for a side project. One blog article compared it to lodash but for asynchronous data. Interesting! It’s been slightly less than an hou...

Day #2 100 Days of Code

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Today was my bi-weekly Meetup of “Learn Python the Hard Way”. It went swimmingly!

Day #1 100 Days of Code

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And I’m making it kind of easy on myself today because I left it for the last thing.

100 Days of Code

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It’s something I first heard about late last year. I think it was the end of Alexander Kallaway’s first 100 days coding challenge.

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Unemployment Part 2

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Unemployment. It’s two and a half weeks since I was laid off. One of those weeks was dedicated to a family visit planned several months ago. This week the...

Unemployment

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Unemployment sucks and involuntary layoff can shred your self-esteem. Trust me, from first hand experience, I know this.

Day xx 100 Days of Code

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When the front end code (me) must rely on the changes to the back end code to be done, but it’s not done in time (yesterday) then you spend literally all day...

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Beginner’s Python Resources

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When you’re first learning a new programming language, the amount of information available can be daunting, or even overwhelming. This list will serve as a ...

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