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Day 10 of 2022 : Rebooting the Code


Learning To Code part 2




I am attempting to reboot my learning how to code in Python. While unemployed, I had the time to make a start. I failed in this attempt. It was down to me trying to go faster than I should be. I have always had that problem when learning. The challenge I have around learning to code is I find the problem-solving bit of a monumental uphill struggle. I struggle when a lot of the coding challenges are to do with Maths. I am not a Maths person. I was never diagnosed with dyslexia or the equivalent dyscalculia. I had quite an advanced reading age when I was young. My writing and spelling was a nightmare. Numbers and equations was a whole new level. It’s a special fresh hell my mind goes to when presented with equations. “ A Car is going “X” miles an hour and breaks at “Y”. What is the total number of cats that think that “B” will be doing when it stops” type of question get me going. My brain goes into lockdown mode. “I am not coming out till you stop looking at the question” it wails. As a kid, I had a full mental freeze during both my Maths and Arithmetic exams.

I failed them so bad they did not even bother printing the subjects on the results paper. That bad. Fair play to the school though. They realized that putting me through that again was not the best plan. They excused me from re-sitting the exam and they suggested I do an economics course instead. I know have a very healthy dislike of economists. This is fine because from what I remember economists all hate each other. They spend a good lot of their books complaining that the last guy was wrong.

I digress somewhat. With learning to code though I find some of the problem solving a bit of mind freeze. I need to find myself a mentor, someone to kick me when I get into a strop. Boy, when I was learning to code last year the strops I got into were huge. I became quite a creative swearer. I was doing basic challenges that some 5 year does to warm up their coding fingers in the playschool yard.

Finding the time now is the other big hurdle. The project is taking up every breathing moment I have. Trying to slot the uphill slog of learning and is going to be tricky. I need to do this though. I asked for suggestions of a good book, and have had some feedback about books that I already know of. So off I go now to research them a bit more. I should blog my moment's incandescent rage as fail to understand or comprehend when to use a loop and when not.
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