Day 2, Review Part Deux | 100 Days of Code

Jenny Cranston
2 min readFeb 23, 2021
Python Crash Course, 2nd Ed, by Eric Matthes

Soundrack:

Reknowing by Lena Raine

Recap:

Well, I did exactly what I outlined yesterday. Reviewed dictionaries, while loops/inputs, and functions. Spent more time on dictionaries than the other two, but it was mostly working on internalizing accessing to nested elements and turning that access into nicely formatted outputs. Looping is pretty understandable to me, but I can get confused if there are more than 2 lists to loop through. Functions were probably the easiest for me to review as they are probably what I spent the most time with last time I was working on this.

Thoughts:

The fact that I am already back where I was, for the most part, really speaks to how important dedicated time is to a pursuit. It’s great to be able to just sit down and focus instead of stealing a few minutes a day to increment progress in dribs and drabs. Today also reminded me why I pick video game soundtracks and instrumental music. I tried having a Hollow Knight stream on as background noise and it was intolerably distracting.

Plans:

For tomorrow, it’s classes. I’m going to spend as much time as I can on them, because as it stands I have absolutely nothing in the way of comprehension here. If I feel like I’ve got a hand on the ball, I could follow through with another chapter, but I am not going to just rush through here.

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