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For the past few days, I’ve been pretty annoyed with coding. I’ve found that I’m dreading sitting down and coding for an hour. This is even harder on weekends, when I can procrastinate more. I think this is normal. This is partly due to where I am in my programming journey, and partly due to […]

I’ve noticed a change over the past few days. I’ll sit down and struggle for about the first 5-10 minutes, like normal. Then, I’ll actually start to have fun! At the end of the hour, I’ll find myself wishing I could keep coding all day! This doesn’t mean I’m getting better, though. I haven’t really […]

Day 35, and still going strong! I’m still programming every day, and I still feel challenged every day, but I feel like I’m at a plateau. I’m inclined to treat learning Python as a checklist – learn this concept, get comfortable with it, then move on to the next thing. Instead, I’ve been struggling with […]

A whole month of code! I’ve seen so much progress already. Little things that used to take me 5-10 minutes are starting to be automatic. I feel like I’m spending a lot more time thinking about logic and actually coding, and less time debugging and researching. This probably means that I need to aim higher […]

And just like that, I’m 25% done! What a time for a milestone! It’s always hard to prioritize coding during free time, but it’s especially difficult when you’re trying to spend time with family. In the past 5 days, I coded before driving down to my Mom’s house, after Thanksgiving dinner, and in the car […]

I’ve been running into some problems in the last 5 days. I’ll work on a problem, run into something I don’t understand, hack at it for a while, realize I need to learn more about that topic, and move on to a different challenge. In one way it’s good, because I’m reaching the edge of […]

Remember when you took statistics in high school and thought “When am I ever going to use this crap?” Well, I don’t. I never actually took statistics. Since Monday, I’ve been working on the following problem from PyBites Challenge 6: Predict when PyPI will have more than 200,000 packages. It’s really just a basic prediction […]

I made it 10 days! Only 90 more to go! I’ve been coding for an hour every morning, before I go to work. I found when I was studying for my CCIE a couple years ago that I can’t reliably work on something every single day in the evenings. So, every morning, I wake up […]

Hello world! I’m Donald Hohenstein, and I started the 100 days of code challenge on November 1st, 2018. For those of you who don’t know about 100 days of code, you can find more info here: https://www.100daysofcode.com/ I’ve always wanted to learn how to program, but I haven’t really made it a long term priority. […]