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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well because it’s personal <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So it’s my white whale – the book I bought that I set a goal to read each year and each year I fail <\/strong>– 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Like how in 12 years a lot of Python packages can change their syntax and examples in the book are so outdated that I kept getting deprecated code errors just trying to do the exercises!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 <\/p>\n\n\n\n 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,201,204],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-one-shot-goals","tag-goals","tag-programming","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonypanariello.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}