Three courses finished, a fair amount of syntax in my head, and the universal advice is to stop and build something. The problem is the gap. Everything I think of is either a to do list, which I have now made twice and…
Talking to an engineer from a different background about a program I had written, I referred to it as code. He said he did not know what code meant, and that the correct word was algorithm. I think I know roughly what…
Four months of self teaching and I still look up how to write a for loop over a dictionary, or the exact argument order for a slice. It feels like I am not learning, just getting faster at searching. Does this stop at…
I am five months into a self taught curriculum, about ten hours a week, changing careers from warehouse logistics at 31. Every time I stall I paste the error into a chat window and get working code back, and I have…
I am about 12 hours into a long web development course and I retain roughly nothing between sessions. I get one hour on weekday evenings, occasionally two at the weekend. Do I push through the remaining 28 hours first…
My laptop died in May and I can replace it around October, not before. I want to spend the summer on Python and eventually some backend work, and I have an iPad Air with a keyboard case and decent wifi. Before I sink…
I did and then appended to , and grew too. Then I read about so I used and that worked for a flat list, but my actual data is a list of dictionaries and modifying a dictionary inside the copy still changes the original.…
I am 34, working full time in retail management, and can put in about twelve hours a week without wrecking my family life. I do not want the median of some bootcamp marketing page, I want the real number from people in…
I have inside an async function and logging gives me a Promise object instead of the user. Inside I do and I am fairly sure the endpoint works because the network tab shows a 200 with JSON. Where is the extra promise…
I committed locally, someone else pushed to the same branch, and now prints a message about divergent branches and refuses to do anything. I have two days of commits that are not pushed anywhere. I do not want to type a…