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Python coding
Jan. 16th, 2020 12:38 amI started the Python coding course in September.
Always wanted to try it, so when it was offered in the evening-classes curriculum, I jumped right in and enrolled (cause last year I was too late to do so).
On top of getting in, I was excited to learn that our company's chatbot makes use of some python coding so I could actually make use of it at work too. My colleagues told me to let the company pay for the course but I didn't want to do that because it creates a certain expectation and I didn't want that pressure.
I was going to satisfy an interest that I had, and on the off chance that it wasn't gonna work out, I didn't want the stress of having to finish because they expect me to do so.
Anywho, I'm coming up on the end of the first semester, which officially ends on the 25th of January, and our final project should be a mini escape room game. There are a few things that have to be in there, but theme and riddles can be anything we want (mine is Star Wars themed).
We don't have exams or tests. 70% of scoring goes to exercises throughout the semester (I'm approx. 10 exercises short of having them all finished), and 30% goes to the final project so I should be alright.
Sidenote: the running joke on the exercises, at my expense, is that they are all math problems and I just don't understand those very well. Therefore, one of the comments my teacher made while she was looking them over was that I definitely had coding logic, but I utterly lack every math-logic in existence. *shrug* I know. =P
I wasn't going to enroll in the next half of the course, which goes more in depth, unless I was able to make the escape room game work at least halfway decent. I thought even that goal was unreachable because I had the foggiest how to start... Turns out, it wasn't that hard to reach and I'm about to sacrifice some more saturday morning ly-ins to learn more coding. =P
Looking forward to learning how to code a simple game like pong. =D
I'll have no doubt, I'll be cursing the code because the escape room is literally written one line at the time, and it's like 5 lines written, 3 lines back cause something is horribly wrong. =P Debugging -- I'm getting quite good at it these days.
Always wanted to try it, so when it was offered in the evening-classes curriculum, I jumped right in and enrolled (cause last year I was too late to do so).
On top of getting in, I was excited to learn that our company's chatbot makes use of some python coding so I could actually make use of it at work too. My colleagues told me to let the company pay for the course but I didn't want to do that because it creates a certain expectation and I didn't want that pressure.
I was going to satisfy an interest that I had, and on the off chance that it wasn't gonna work out, I didn't want the stress of having to finish because they expect me to do so.
Anywho, I'm coming up on the end of the first semester, which officially ends on the 25th of January, and our final project should be a mini escape room game. There are a few things that have to be in there, but theme and riddles can be anything we want (mine is Star Wars themed).
We don't have exams or tests. 70% of scoring goes to exercises throughout the semester (I'm approx. 10 exercises short of having them all finished), and 30% goes to the final project so I should be alright.
Sidenote: the running joke on the exercises, at my expense, is that they are all math problems and I just don't understand those very well. Therefore, one of the comments my teacher made while she was looking them over was that I definitely had coding logic, but I utterly lack every math-logic in existence. *shrug* I know. =P
I wasn't going to enroll in the next half of the course, which goes more in depth, unless I was able to make the escape room game work at least halfway decent. I thought even that goal was unreachable because I had the foggiest how to start... Turns out, it wasn't that hard to reach and I'm about to sacrifice some more saturday morning ly-ins to learn more coding. =P
Looking forward to learning how to code a simple game like pong. =D
I'll have no doubt, I'll be cursing the code because the escape room is literally written one line at the time, and it's like 5 lines written, 3 lines back cause something is horribly wrong. =P Debugging -- I'm getting quite good at it these days.
