I Find My Support At The Offshore Wind Farms - Part 4 - But Also At The Onshore Ones Too

-

I Find My Support At The Offshore Wind Farms - Part 4 - But Also At The Onshore Ones Too

Now that I've told my life story, can I get back to writing some Python

Now that I've told my life story, can I get back to writing some Python? The above is such a mood omg that it is unreal. I'm on the 6 am train to London but so what? And who cares? I told myself I was going to chill so I packed a nice book. Lol. I don't read very much.

But instead, I started blogging.

Show me the bones that we buried outside

Today is my last day before annual leave. It couldn't have come at a better time.

I went way too hard over the last two months.

But like way too hard. I haven't really stopped. I don't really have many regrets.

I definitely upskilled my Python.

I upskilled it a lot. But I also burned myself out quite a little bit. I do want to continue the Python going forward through; I just have to think a little bit better about this.

I left my body in your care

(Song lines are all from "The Yellow Mile by Marika Hackman, btw).

I loved learning Python.

More than ever I know I need to learn Python.

More than ever I know I need to learn Python.

So what are the Python techniques and strategies that are working for me?

  • Codewars is very very good but I burnt out on it a bit - 

Do you remember how I once said that the whole Universe was aligning?

If you read my story, my past blog posts, and my interview with Codecademy, I talk a lot about the universe aligning to make me a software engineer. I will maintain that this is true. 

I can't remember all of the examples of the early days but that's okay.

I have told this story so, so many times.

But now I feel as if the whole universe is aligning for me but with Python.

A wooden background - white would panels. Text reads: "If you do not go after what you want in life then you will never get it "
The whole universe is aligning for me but with Python

During Covid I found a Taoist comic book in my mum's attic. Yep, I am very lucky like that. I have access to some pretty great books at home.

It said - it was so perfect for the pandemic and I sent it to my sister in her tiny flat - it said - the Master is not alone even when he is alone.

Because he knows he is at one with the whole Universe.

Why is Python in alignment with the Universe

Everything is lining up.

The signs are subtler than when I first started coding - then it was completely crazy.

As I mentioned it was like the whole world was on fire.

But things like that can't last forever; states like that can't last forever. Beginner's luck. I do believe that this was the life path and the right life journey for me, but I don't think I could spend forever on fire.

You never know though - when I started this job I had a new wave of MASS ENTHUSIASM, of I AM MEANT TO BE DOING THIS, of I AM UNLIMITED AND UNSTOPPABLE. Maybe those moments will come again. In fact I know they will. But sometimes and in between those moments then I just have to keep the faith and that often involves working very hard. I know that I am meant to be doing this.

And so what have the signs been and the synchronicities? Well it's just things like...
  • I am working on a Python course at the moment
  • And then suddenly a ticket comes up which is exactly in alignment with the course at work
  • And then another ticket comes up
  • And my mentor sets me a task to help with the ticket
  • And that task is perfectly aligned with the work that I am meant to be doing...
I also had a dream about someone telling me to focus on just one thing - someone very important to me and that I admire.

He was telling me to just focus on one thing.

And by one thing he meant Python - my choice of one thing to focus on. 

But he meant that it could help me with more than just my coding and my career - he meant that it could help me with my healing as well. Because why not have both?

Python is a language embedded with kindness

Python is a language embedded with kindness.

Python is a language embedded with kindness

And I know for a fact that kindness is the cure to everything.

How do I know that Python is embedded with kindness? Perhaps I should've know sooner but I found out yesterday after my mentor sent me a Guido van Rossum quote.

About how Python was filled with magic under the hood to help the user. I mean isn't that nice? Isn't that a kind thing to do? Isn't it sweet how it's all under the hood and so the user doesn't even have to worry about it until they need to? I write a blog called "The Zen of Coding." Maybe I should write a blog called "The Kindness of Python."

PYTHON

I have a few main Python techniques:
  • Codecademy intermediate Python course
    • I consolidate this with blog posts
    • I consolidate this with LinkedIn posts
    • I could consolidate it even more tbh; I don't just have to consolidate the recent stuff; I can go over the last month or two and see what I can remember omg
  • CodeWars
    • I went HARD on this and then needed a break - that's okay - that's how I learn
    • I do things REALLY INTENSELY and then I learn
      • And then I step back and I process things
      • And while I am processing things I learn EVEN MORE.
    • So I would like to get back to the CodeWars problems after my holiday
    • But how?
      • I was solving 7 kyu problems.
I was solving 7 kyu problems.

But I was learning to solve them ELEGANTLY. And so I
  • Write the pseudocode and/or the comments line by line
  • Then I turn that into code
  • Then if I can then I try to refactor the code as much as possible
  • (LIES: I either just get it perfect the first time round or I leave it as a hacky mess; okay that's actually not true I do refactor it sometimes).
  • And one day then I will be able to solve 6 kyu problems elegantly too as a 6 kyu problem is a seris of 7 kyu problems.
  • Idk I don't really like to limit myself. I might try a 6 or two and then go back to 7 if I need to.
  • I am almost beginning to find level 7 boring as they are over too quickly and they don't seem to tell as much of a story as the level 6 kyu ones do... but LET'S SEE...
  • I can probably always go back to leve 7 if I need to
How else am I learning Python? Well through work... I am solving a lot of Python problems there!!!... And I have a very nice book on my bookshelf called "Effective Python: Second Edition" !!!

Shouldn't I be coding?

Maybe I should be coding instead of writing about coding? But who knows.

Maybe I can slowly move towards writing more code in general and less writing about writing code.


I want to learn some Python.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hello World

-
Image
 Hello from Susanna Codes! Hi everyone,  My name is Susanna and I'm a 28-year-old aspiring software engineer from Brighton! As I type this, listening to music from "Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain" (it reminds me of home, in Luxembourg, where I am from - I'm missing home quite a lot lately!) and look forward to some Irish Cream tea in my afternoon break, I am thinking: How lucky I am that my amazing colleague Rosana helped me out with a plan for my software engineer journey (she directed me to the front-end first). How HTML and CSS would not have been my first languages of choice had I not been guided in this direction, as in my head they were seen as 'less-serious' langages. How done I am with what other people think of me and if other people see the 'front-end' as softer then so be it! Everyone has to start somewhere. I am so grateful to be on this journey, with Codecademy's Front-End Engineer Career Path.  Thank you to Async Brighton as ...
Read more

Yosemite

-
Image
Yosemite I'll never forget the first time I head the song Yosemite by Lana del Rey. I very nearly clicked away.  It was quite near the start of my Software Engineering journey, right near when I start learning the Front-End/Web Development. I was listening to Arcadia by LDR before, maybe twice, and then Blue Banisters came on. I nearly clicked away in the first 30 seconds but I forced myself to keep listening anyway.  I'll never forget how that song has made me feel. It became my song of 2022 even though I only discovered it in November. I can still listen to it every day and get that complete sense of wonder and of awe that I felt the first time that I heard it. That ending of the song is completely amazing, and it just completely just blows me away every time. "Withstanding all the time, changes, and seasons..." - LDR Concise Body Arrow Functions Why am I so bad at arrow functions? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?  Just kidding, I am beginning to get them. But why are they so hard? ...
Read more

Where To Hide A Star

-
Image
Where To Hide A Star I haven’t read this book but I just saw this title of a forthcoming children’s book on the train and so I wanted to write a blog post based off of this as well. The last six months have been… rewarding and fulfilling. I have managed to make all of my dreams come true and to defy expectations,  Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight and if you reread all of my blogs over the last six months (all 200 of them) you would know exactly what I’m struggling at work and what was going on. And why. But I’ve managed to overcome most of my challenges. Neurodiversity. Being very new in the field relative to the expectations of the job. Being in a new workplace environment. All stuff which I can handle and I am doing just fine. Because I am amazing and fabulous and I can do anything. I am loving the job. I am thriving. I am loving just getting on with it. I love my work. I am having massive breakthroughs. On Thursday I had what felt like the biggest breakthrough ...
Read more