We need the func(tion), we gotta have that func(tion)

So I'm visiting my good friend Neil here in Woodland Park, Colorado. He has two seven-month old kittens and they are affectionate. Let me tell you, coding with a cat attacking your face makes for a more difficult time.The cat obviously doesn't want me to become the next supreme overload of the planet.



After I got used to the cat, this chapter was very logical and easy to follow. This chapter focused on functions, parameters, arguments, imports, and max/min/abs/type. Overall I felt good at the level and speed in which I comprehended these things. For this week's project I made a trip cost calculator which didn't give me too much trouble at all. In fact the only time my code didn't compile the first time, was because I was doing toooo much. This is a pretty simple program, and even though I'm pretty limited in code academy, I'm going to attempt to all for user input instead of just printing out defined values. We'll see how that goes.




This coming up week is "hack week" at Dropbox and I plan to take advantage of a few coding classes that some of my colleagues are offering to teach. Some of the amazing women at Dropbox are going to be teaching these courses, and I for one am excited to learn more and have more people giving me input and direction. SO LET'S GET READY TO HACK WEEK IT UP. I plan to look something like this by the end of the week:


Metrics




course progress = 38%
time the cat licked my face = 92 (yes I counted all of them)
claw marks on my neck/throat = 2
time spent on chapter 4 = 2 (probably added an extra 45 min due to cat eating my face)
swear words said = 2 (both directed at the cat)
current altitude in Woodland Park, CO = 8,465′
calories I saved by not drinking = A lot (was planning on doing an "all you can drink for 4 hour for $10", but those plans fell through)
total calories saved since starting to code instead of going outdrinking = 1536 + a lot

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