Status Updates From Python 3 Object Oriented Pr...

Skimmed most of the design patterns. A lot of it went over my head. I'll have to revisit as I get better at Python. The testing chapter was good because I'd been using unittest, but I think I'd like pytest better. Now learning about concurrency.

I understood the first half of the iterator chapter then it started to go ovr my head.

I have a feeling I'm going to just be skimming the next two chapters, Design Patterns 1 and 2. Especially since they're so complex a topic that Pakt has a book that is solely about mastering python design patterns.

Wow....strings were a surprisingly deep topic. Learned a few more things I intend to apply to my Extra Life Donation code.

Next up is is ch9 Iterators - this is the best part of Python code in making loops and other things more readable, but it's also so different from the coding I did the rest of my life that I always forget the subtlties. Should learn a lot.

Learned a lot in data structures, including some more Pythonic ways of doing things than I'd been doing in my code.

Basely understood anything Object-Oriented shortcuts, but did learn a safer way to do files operations.

Next up, ch8 - Strings and Serialization

A chapter on exception handling!

OOP syntax - picked up a few new tricks and best practices.

Now learning about Pythonic inheritance. Duck typing makes this a little more complicated to wrap my brain around, but is pretty neat. Also was reminded that I can use inheritance to extend lists, dicts, etc for more elegant code.

Refreshing myself on the terms and paradigms of OOP. I mostly remembered them, but some had grown quite fuzzy since my Java days.