Status Updates From Penguin Random House Python...

7-Aug-202

Wow. The amount of knowledge I’ve been able to take in at this point is amazing. Can’t wait till I get to the projects at the back of the book.

5-Aug-2020

Chapter 8: Functions ✔

At the first project
there are many mistakes in the coding, so it is better to try searching on youtube (game development using Pygame python ) it is nearly same project.

Chapter 6: Dictionaries ✔
(why didn't I read this one before? The possibilities are huge!)

Chapter 6: Dictionaries ✔
(why didn't I read this one before? The possibilities are huge!)

Repeating the first part

I finished the first section of the book. which is very helpful to understand the main elements of programming in python language. starting from Print("Hello world") till testing your code .

Ah, turns out the next chapter was loops on lists anyway.

Exercises called for an extremely tedious process of popping items from a list line-by-line so I ignored it and made a while-else loop to automate the process instead.

Finally I have finished the first project.
It was really useful and helped me to understand a lot of concepts

Finally I have finished part one and now I will start doing the exciting stuff.

It has been a week since I first started reading this book.
It is really good as it starts with sth simple then build on it to make it more complicated.
Classes are introduced very well.

Until now it really simple and easy.
So clear that any beginner in programming can understand.

Finished Ch 8.

Damn it's getting difficult, or maybe that's exactly what do you say when you are being introduced to new data.

so far so good

Part I, Chapter 8: Functions ✔

Part I, Chapter 8: Functions ✔

13. ALIENS!

12. A SHIP THAT FIRES BULLETS

Doing the exercises as you go along is important for making sure you understand key concepts and can refer to them again and again for clarification.

The exercises in each chapter really build up your skills. So far, a great instructional book.

Part I, Chapter 7: User input and while loops ✔

Part I, Chapter 5: If Statements ✔

Part I, Chapter 4: Working with Lists ✔

Part I, Chapter 3: Introducing Lists ✔

The Zen of Python ...import this 💚

I used Python to write a program to solve the NYT "Spelling Bee" puzzle as an exercise. It took me an hour or so. I'm feeling good about it, as I got to learn about a new concept ("set" as opposed to list or array) to make my algorithm (a variation on one I had implemented as an anagrammer in Perl ~2005) work, and because Python is finally starting to feel like a natural choice to use.