What It Means To Me To Have Finished The Intermediate Python Course

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What It Means To Me To Have Finished The Intermediate Python Course

I can't believe it. I am done. I am finally done. Of course there will still be more to do; we have agreed that I will do two modules from the Advanced Python course as we feel that they are relevant to my work and will be helpful. But I cannot - I CANNOT - even tell you what it means to me to be finally done with this course.

It's not that I don't enjoy it - I love it. But I don't like working under pressure and there was a need to get this done as fast as possible.

I am very grateful to work for supporting me. Grateful to the director who agreed that the company would pay for the course, grateful to him and my manager for giving me the time to do it in works hours too, and also extremely grateful to my manager who gave me so much time and energy and patience and such a listening ear, on top of everything he already does, to help me to finish this course.

A certificate certifying that Susanna Chapman has completed the learn intermediate Python 3 course

I just hope that I can take what I have learned and apply it to the role.

But I have already been doing that all along. So there's just a little bit more to apply now right? Thank you. I can't wait to see what we will do with the Advanced Course

Until February this year I had barely ever done any Python, only a couple of elif's. Now I am taking advanced courses and this it feels surreal. What a year this has been.

Now I need to chill out a bit so I can deliver a full week's work starting on next Monday. Oops. Better get some rest in

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