• Learning to program

    Great Success: Learning to program python and (finally) creating my first beginner python program

    They say if at first you don’t succeed try, try again. Never in my life has this phrase been more appropriate that whilst learning to program python. After many, many tries, I have finally completed my first python program & successfully submitted it. It is a beginner python program based quiz. This post details how I got there. It has taken a while to build up my knowledge of programming in python so that I understand it. I have started to use supplementary material in the form of machine learning podcasts, a book called automate the boring stuff as well as seeking out advice using github and stackoverflow to get…

  • Learning to code

    Speaking Snake

    If you had told me this time last year I would be excited to be learning Python I would have responded ‘you must be mistaken, I’m no parselmouth!’ - shout out to all the Harry Potter fans out there who got that reference*. Oh how times have changed. As I am beginning to learn to program I increasing see the Python programming language as the key. I also want to share some things that have been helping me in staying motivated to learn to program with the Udacity Intro to programming nanodegree Python course. So what is this Python programming language? For those of you not familiar with computer programming,…