How do I words?

Setting the mood: Spotify playlist I'm currently listening to while attempting to learn python

On this weeks episode of "Patrick attempts to add value to his life", he attempts to words. Yes, you read that right, I attempt to words. Words are hard, and when you say the same two or three almost a billion times out loud, they begin to lose meaning and you as a person begin to lose sanity. 

This week conditionals and control flow, which really means I learned about "comparators", "boolean operators", and "If, Else, and Elif" loops. Which translates into human speak as, I learned to say some of the same words so many times they eventually lost meaning and I then added swear words in front of them to hopefully give them meaning.


After saying things out loud to myself more times than I'd like to admit I eventually finished my program of a Pig Latin Generator. Yes, I typed in a word "Patrick" and it output "atrickpay". Now you may ask yourself, "How much code does it take to create said program?". Well my friends here is what took me almost an hour to create.


Now, I'm not going to take the time to explain this out, because it's still a fresh wound on my brain matter. This piece of code and I need a little time apart. I am starting to see why most of my programmer friends are as angry as they are about most things in life. This little bit of code here put me on the wrong side of annoyed and I'm not sure I want to be around it right now.


I am glad that I worked through it, and I do understand the logic of it all. I will come back for more, as I am not a quitter. I'm still not quite sure how this language is used to run super complex systems, but if there is ever a company created around generating Pig Latin, I'm your engineer.  

I stepped my "meme game" up this time Josh, so there. 


Metrics:

course progress = 28%
time spent on chapter 3 = 1.75 hours (an hour on the pig latin generator project alone)
how many times I said "True" or "False" out loud = 413-ish
swear words said = 12 (sorry mom)
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ = 0.5 (I came close)
calories I saved by not drinking = 768 (3 pints of Guinness (210 calories each) and 2 shots of Jameson at (69 calories each))
total calories saved since starting to code instead of going outdrinking = 1536

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