Apparently lists and dictionaries are like pizza when it comes to coding...
....because you can slice them!...... Ok bad joke, but seriously, you can.
This lesson was incredibly useful, yet infuriating. I spent about two hours on the lesson that should've taken about an hour. I did take a quick break to eat already prepared dinner here at Dropbox which was delicious. In the lesson I learned about lists, dictionaries, and keys. Manipulating these sets of data is essentially the basis for the complicated project I had at the end of the lesson. This weeks lesson was a day in the supermarket.
The most confusing part about this less were those little operators in the for loop. Code Academy does this thing where this give you less and less help the more you go through it, but still introduce new stuff that they don't go into much detail on. So in line 23, for the longest time I had stock[item] - 1. Well this is incorrect, because it is just an equation without returning a value. That would be like saying A - 1 instead of A = A - 1. It took one of our experienced engineers coming over and helping me before I realized that I may have not have read that part of the lesson well enough.
I also want to give a huge shout out to my coworker Tammy Butow for getting me into a "Learning Pals" group at work! It gives us a group of people who are all at different levels in our coding expertise a way to get together and bounce ideas off each other and use each other as a resource. I also think it's fantastic that it's mostly women empowering other women to learn to code and get better at it. Hopefully this group continues to grow and reach more people. We did joke about getting animal onesies for the group which would allow us to stand out... picture me in a unicorn onesie learning to code. That's right, you just pictured me in a unicorn onesie and it made your day better, ADMIT IT!
Metrics:
This lesson was incredibly useful, yet infuriating. I spent about two hours on the lesson that should've taken about an hour. I did take a quick break to eat already prepared dinner here at Dropbox which was delicious. In the lesson I learned about lists, dictionaries, and keys. Manipulating these sets of data is essentially the basis for the complicated project I had at the end of the lesson. This weeks lesson was a day in the supermarket.
I also want to give a huge shout out to my coworker Tammy Butow for getting me into a "Learning Pals" group at work! It gives us a group of people who are all at different levels in our coding expertise a way to get together and bounce ideas off each other and use each other as a resource. I also think it's fantastic that it's mostly women empowering other women to learn to code and get better at it. Hopefully this group continues to grow and reach more people. We did joke about getting animal onesies for the group which would allow us to stand out... picture me in a unicorn onesie learning to code. That's right, you just pictured me in a unicorn onesie and it made your day better, ADMIT IT!
course progress = 47%
time spent on chapter 5 = 2
swear words said = 9 or 10, I lost count
calories I saved by not drinking = Probably a good amount, but I ate a big dinner
people I used for help this chapter = 4
number of times i got you to think about me in a unicorn onesie = at least 2, admit it.
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