I can't comprehend this List

More accurate, would be to say I don't like listening comprehension at the moment.  I'd rather write more verbose code than use it. Which means I need to push myself to use it more and get better with it.  

Right now the issue lays in knowing how to connect certain variables and their respective positions.  I'm sure my upcoming assignments will have need of it and that's frightening.  Oh well, til tomorrow. 

Never Unpickle Unknown Data

Title is from a recent lecture.  But a good piece of advice when learning anything programming/technology.  Implicit trust of objects and code is an even scarier proposition with all the garbage auto-complete code that is out there right now.  

Let's go to Rio

Came across a saved medium article that talked about a framework called Rio.  It's all python, giving the ability to write full web apps in python.  Unlike Flask, no HTML/CSS or JavaScript needed.  I'm thinking of trying it out to develop more python skills without needing to detour for the html/css stuff.  

Ideation Abounds

Found an interesting book I had saved.  140 simple python programs.  Gave me an idea for my portfolio site. Might make it a randomizer button that loads one of the simple programs side by side within the code. 

Group Projects

One of my favorite things we've done in my Intro to CS classes is having code reviews with small groups over a few assignments.  I've found them to be incredibly interesting and helpful.  Getting to see others approach things like doc strings and class inheritance helps contextualize a lot of what the instructors teach.  

Reading over and over

Because I've taken a lot of personal steps to learning programming and coding over the years, I've also had the same concepts presented to me in a wide variety of ways.  

It's easy enough to follow along with writing your own scripts from a video tutorial or book, but for me, I think it's limited my lateral thinking for code.

Searching through searches

Working on some homework to modify bubble sort and insertion sort functions.  Was able to get them mostly done.  Still trying to figure out how to sort case insensitive lists to finish up.  

Silly starts to silly careers

I've had my silly little flask test site up for a month now.  I enjoy going to my star wars jokes page everytime. I'm following along with Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg.  Picked it up in a Humble Bundle a few years ago.  

Objects are objects

So far, this second intro course seems to have hit a wall in my brain.  Objects make sense to me, and yet, manipulation and use just don't yet.  I'll have to push through this soon but it's my least favorite time of learning.

API calls from inside the house

A big part of my current idea is using a public API to get info on specific mods.  Once I implement the calls I'll do a simple cli command to get the output to start, then try and build a webpage to show it.  

Python

I've been learning the Python programming language for about 3 years now.  My best progress has come from Al Sweigert's Automate the Boring Stuff and my intro classes at Oregon State.  

Object Oriented Programming still eludes a foothold in my brain but it is coming along with each new lecture and assignment.

I started working on my first little web app using Flask last month and hope to finish by end of Q1.