Goal met: Complete Python Book

Ok so. you may ask why a random thing like a book and not say, take 50 hours of python trainings or write some python programs.

Well because it’s personal

I bought this book 12 years ago when I was trying to brush up my Python skills and learn some new syntax and other things for a project I was working on and over the last 12 years I stopped and started this book about 12 different times. I usually get a few chapters in then something else grabs my attention and I never finish which is frustrating because all the good stuff (the automation part) is at the end of the book!

So it’s my white whale – the book I bought that I set a goal to read each year and each year I fail – so for the 50 for 50 I knew I had to complete the book it’s just the done thing. To push it to the side or start and not finish is karma I didn’t want to bring to this effort so I buckled down and read each chapter, did all the exercises and practice projects and I actually learned a lot.

Like how in 12 years a lot of Python packages can change their syntax and examples in the book are so outdated that I kept getting deprecated code errors just trying to do the exercises! It was an interesting learning experience mapping the old syntax to the new so I could do the practice programs but it did add to the time it took to finish the book

But oh, finish it I did! Finally.I can remove that goal from my yearly goal list and feel a great burden lifted from me. It’s a sign that this year I will hit 100% on all my aggressive goals!

I also got the bug to do some more programming and have since taken classes online and wrote a bit of code -so who knows what this kick started!