Day 82: August 13, Sunday – Day 91: August 24, Thursday
Progress: For whatever reason, I fell off the blogging daily bandwagon. With that said, I did not completely fall off the programming bandwagon – thank goodness! Here’s a rundown of what I generally did over the past days. It was a lot of the same, and perhaps that’s honestly what made it too tedious to write about.
Now that I have a subscription to DataCamp I’ve been poking around with their Python content. It was fun, and I was getting it, but it really feels as though there is no retention for me. As such, it’s very likely I will end up starting over and taking more notes this time around.
Spent some time with Coursera. Stopped at one project. Though it was not hard at all, it was not something I immediately solved. Since then, too many other shiny things quickly caught my attention. Still would like to get back into that and pursue their further courses in that specialization.
Over the weekend Code School had a free for all and of course I participated. Tried out their Git classes as well as Python and a few others. They definitely put a lot of polish into their videos. With that said, it doesn’t necessarily seem much deeper than other resources.
The most exciting thing on my plate right now is that I’m finally really working on a project of my own. Basically, it utilizes both Selenium (for browser automation) and Beautiful Soup (for grabbing site HTML) in order to automate a process that’s a dreaded part of my regular schedule. That has really captured my interest. Despite knowing nothing about Selenium or Beautiful Soup at the start of the week, I’m already able to click/type into the browser as well as pull all the elements I want from a HTML page. The next step is to merge these two together.
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