I bought this course from Chris yesterday.
https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/move-from-excel-to-python-and-pandas
Though I was generally feeling negative about buying more courses/books on Pandas, I bought this course because I happen to read this wonderful article Pandas Datatypes on Chris’s blog. I was so impressed with the comprehensive coverage and the thoughtful step-by-step presentation of ideas in that single blog post that I decided to purchase his course. People like Chris should be supported and encouraged. There is so much material on Pandas, but most of them are jargon-heavy, not organized well, or is just regurgitation of the pandas documentation. …
Though the last month was unsettling in a number of ways, this month I started seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Better note-taking
The key question I had was this: How can I capture my learning in a simple linear format that gives a full overview, but at the same time makes it easy for long-term retention using Spaced Repetition System (SRS)?
When I was learning any material in the past 1 year, my notes were mainly in the form of Anki flashcards which made it difficult for me to have a simple overview of the key points I…
This month has been a bit unsettling. There were a number of things that I am coming to realize slowly:
- I am surprised at the amount of knowledge I forget. When I tried to go back to my personal pet project — Quran SRS — after a gap of 8 months. I have even forgotten what virtualenv manager I was using and how to even activate it. Since I installed Minconda when I was studying the Django Crash Course, it somehow messed up my python installation (or at least that is what I think). Hence, I could not even start…
As mentioned last month, I have started going thru the Fluent Python book which has received much acclaim.
The first time when I tried to read the book about a year ago, it seemed way too technical and complicated. However, this time, I started to like the book as it started filling in the blanks on many of the questions I had about various aspects of Python. …
This month has been a reasonably a low-effort on programming. After a lot of time spent learning a lot of technologies in the last 1 year, I have decided to slow down and master a few technologies. The first one is gonna be Python.
So, I have ordered a few books on Python, the most important one being
I have gone through this book in the first few months of learning Python and found it to be very difficult to comprehend. Let me see how I feel about the book this time.
I have also started visiting CheckIO dailly and…
It has been a year since I have started learning Python. It feels like a long time though. As I look back, I am filled with immense sense of gratefulness for this journey. Never did I think that I would make so much progress given my other work commitments. Never did I imagine that my personal pet project — Quran SRS — would be up and running so fast. Never did I envision that I would end up doing a major programming project as part of my professional work.
Getting back to programming is my journey in the surrender experiment.
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Last month, I wrapped up my Javascript project and completed some of the more advanced functionality. Since I was edging into advanced territory, I really wanted to have automated test-cases to help me not to make mistakes and to really have the confidence each time I add new code or refactor existing code.
Hence, I took a look at 2 testing courses by Kent Dodds in Front End Masters, but I did not feel that I got what I wanted — it was covering way too much internals and was not beginner-friendly. Even after watching these videos, I did not…
I have been coding in joy in Javascript in the last month, trying to fill in gaps in my knowledge in JS as I try to apply the concepts I learnt to solve the problems that I encountered in the real-life project I am very grateful for.
When I first encountered Jquery in Angela’s web development bootcamp, I thought of it as just a way to type less — instead of typing querySelector and querySelectorAll, just typing $ seemed very good. But as I used Jquery more and more, I came to understand the thoughtfulness of its designers — how…
Yesterday, I released the first draft of a project that I was working on for the last few months. It is for one of my clients which is an UN organization headquartered in Geneva — it is something that I conceived during my last visit to Geneva in February.
My client had a large manual of financial policies and procedures as a Word/PDF document that was updated every year. We thought of extracting the contents and making it available in the Finance helpdesk portal so that can easily access any rule. This would provide a number of advantages as the…
Last month has been a time of full immersion into Javascript. When I finished 4-hours per day on JS last month, my plan was to ease back into 1 hour per day on JS and continue with my work project which was in Python.
In that Python project, I had to extract a large Word document and split that into a number of individual pages based on a set of rules and upload them as a series of Knowledge Base pages on a help-desk system. I used the most popular package in Python for extracting data from the Word documents…
