Continued on today with Code Academy, well over halfway done with their Python course. I am working now on the Battleship game they have you make. Now that I have gotten about halfway through the tutorial, there is a lot of looking up of the problems in the forums. I often find myself pasting the correct code next to mine and comparing to see where I went wrong or what I do not know. There was a message posted to the local forums which expressed frustration at a similar situation. If you always have to go to the forums in every lesson are you learning it yourself and will you realistically be able to replicate it? I say, probably not which is why I love Code Academy as a starting point but not necessarily as an ending point.
Meanwhile, I continued on in Pine's Learn to Program with Ruby. I have finished up to Chapter 9 and have to say that I continue to enjoy the explanations and hands on activities spread throughout this book. I have managed to completed a couple of the challenges with no help and the rest of them I have done with some guidance from his answers in the back. Whereas I used to totally freeze up when being asked to start writing my own code in response to a problem, Learning to Program has gotten me more comfortable writing my own code without the Code Academy scaffold. I have also learned a great deal more about the details of the syntax because you just find yourself at the prompt running test programs all the time in this volume (which I like).
Total hours into Programming: 47 (3 yesterday)
Chris Pine's Learn to Program (Finished with Chapter 8 of 14)
Progress on Hartl's Tutorial Ready to start Chapter 3!
Code Academy Points: 495
Code Academy Badges: 54
Code Academy Skills Finished: 2 (Make a Website, Ruby)
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