Thursday, August 4, 2011

Getting around

Learning Python has been interesting so far. I like Zed Shaw's approach (and thus, just like writing the code out all the time to learn), and I'm picking up a few general programming concepts that I hadn't learned before. The biggest thing is importing into the file, writing, etc. This will be more useful once I start exploring the world of code that already exists.

In the meantime, this blog has turned into somewhat of a book review blog. I began reading another book earlier this week called A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton. I'm only about six chapters into the book thus far, but at least it's gotten me to go out and buy several different sized notebooks at Muji, which is located north of Canal on Broadway. Boulton reinforced the idea that I should always have something to write in, and while I watch engineers I know do the same and counted all the times I've said, "I wish I had something I could write in right now," it was about time something was actually done about it.

Lastly for today, heypodo.com's index page was finally thrown up. It was coded in an hour or two, and there's plenty of work to still do on it, but it's there and hosted from github.

My goal is to get CT's Most Wanted DJ's website completed by the end of September. I met with the guys a few times so far and things are definitely moving forward. It'll be much easier to get that project rolling once I finish the python book next week.