PtHW

Learn Python the Hard Way The classic by Zed Shaw. There will be code! 2018-11-07 Did ex1.py but bumbled the Gitness of it all. 2018-11-08 Read about and practiced with Python lists, so that counts as learning Python the hard way, even though it's not from the book. Still bumbling Git. 2019-03-08 Rebooting this, from ex1.py. 2019-03-08T04:00-0800 I should have timestamped; will do hence. String in Vim is :r!date -I'minutes' . Finished ex1 and ex2, with study drills. 2019-03-09 Did ex3 with study drills (math operations); forgot to timestamp. Had some hands-on practice merging branches with conflicts. 2019-03-10T14:29-0700 Working on LPtHW, exercise 4, intro to variables. Using Vim's "ctrl-r" autocomplete features to get var names right -- so nice. 2019-03-10T17:22-0700 Done for today. Interesting -- choosing whether variables are integer or floating-point can have repercussions later. 2019-03-16T04:23-0700 Forgot to timestamp when I started a couple hours ago. Did ex5-sd3 -- all the format characters. There actually are several I'd forgotten about, like %u and %U for Unicode, %x and %X for hexadecimal, etc. Next: Do ex5-sd4, converting Shaw's measurements into metric. 2019-03-18T01:46-0700 Earlier, did ex6; forgot to update README. Hm; given the existence of Git Log, perhaps README is not the proper place to track progress. I may revamp this. 2019-03-18T01:47-0700 Currently working on ex6 study drills. I dislike adding comments to each line, but I do perceive the educational value -- forces me to actually think about some of the lines. 2019-03-18T02:59-0700 Finished the ex6 study drills. Text strings, strings in variables, strings inside of strings, concatenating strings with "+". A file was renamed from "ex6-sd2.py" to "ex6-sd234.py". The current adventure: ex6 and ex6-sd were done in branch "2019-0317-ex6", which also is live on GitHub (after I pushed from GitShell). I'm done with 2019-0317-ex6 -- already merged into master. So, I'm going to delete branch 2019-0317-ex6. What will that do to the branch on GitHub? (I will also put this question in the "learning-git-2019-0309.txt" file.) 2019-03-20T01:03-07:00 On the Chromebook, I did Exercise 7, but couldn't push it to GitHub because I didn't have OpenSSH set up. Working on that. Meanwhile, I don't want to dup the work, so I'm going to skip the ex7 Study Drills for now, and move on the Gateway to Exercise 8. This will be good, bc it will give me practice managing multiple branches on different machines. 2019-03-21T15:31-0700 I still haven't figured out which rsa keys to put in which dir on the Chromebook. Meanwhile, Exercise 10 is about escape sequences. I expect to be too busy with other stuff to get to the Study Drills until approximately Wednesday (today is Thursday, so that's about a week).