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Something Happened (Not)

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There are times when it seems like nothing happened. [ Link to Memes Gen here ] Where was I these last few weeks (months?)  Can't fully remember. That DOES happen when you're 70+ years old. I had committed to journaling my travels through the Learning about Python (LaP) lands. Learning coding . However, unlike Odysseus of Homer fame, I fell for the Siren Calls of easy-to-do side- tracking habits. In particular, those of the binaural sound tracks types. I've been "busy" as a non-productive bee in mindlessly hoarding those sound tracks   plus more . in hopes that listening to them will make me smarter. Of course, they do the exact opposite. In short, I've succumbed to the allure of the Siren songs in place of finishing my second Python OOP project. That brings us to the topic of acquiring non-productive / subconscious " micro-habits " and shunning the hard work of conscious learning. TO BE CONTINUED ... MORE TO EXPLORE Learn Computer Science in Yo...
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Me too ! I seem to have forgotten everything

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 [ Music for listening to while reading this page] [ Epilog: More things I've forgotten] So, here I am, ... confidently  working up my next OOP project. I get the idea that I wnat to see the latest directory of my newly defined class -- what methods have I created in here so far? So use the dir() function. Right? But the function returns a very long, long list object stretching across one line in the console. No good. I want it broken up into smaller pieces. Oh no! How do I do that? I'm cluless. My mind is a BLANK. I go to sleep. "Idiot!", my subconscious replies upon waking up. Have you forgotten how to slice a list? Seems so. Amnesia has struck. It happens. Even to me. Luckily not a permanent condition. Point is, we have to repeatedly go back to fundamentals (back to our roots) and refresh them or else we forget them. Even the most elementary ones. Eventually, I got it going. But in the process realized I don't remember how to convert a list into a set of st...
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Connecting the Dopamine Burnout Dots

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  Lately, I've been in a slump; in a valley of malaise so to speak, as applied to aggressively moving forward toward my goal of learning Python and related other coding technologies ( Old Man Learns to Code alas no more? --with respect to Py?, HTML?, CSS?, JS?, BAT scripting?, AHK?, PKM/Obsidian?, more? ). Why the slump? ⏫ ⏺ ⏬       ◀     ▶1    ▶2     THIS LINE IS UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION (ignore for now) Have I hit "total burnout"? What is burnout? What are its causes? It turns out that loss over time of o ne's sense of excitement, of thrilled  anticipation  and of strong motivation to advance is quite natural. It's simply that expectation of surprise is no longer there. And therefore there are no large dopamine kicks to entice one to rush forward to the next, possibly rewarding , next rung on the learning curve.  Instead, a dread may emerge. A loss of confidence may develop of not being able to master the nex...
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A Time Out From Real Coding

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It feels as if it was longer, but apparently I needed some time out from actual coding for diversion,  reflection  and introspection.  ( More here ) and ( here ) [Jump to latest thoughts-- click here ] I found every excuse for not doing OOP project #2 which is the abbreviation expansion class and its "objects". Was it nothing more than falling into a bunch of easy-dopamine traps ? Did I get stuck in the identity-politics debates? Did I let 'notifications' on my smart phone distract me? Perhaps. Or maybe I needed to rewire my mental models in the background (the subconscious) of how OOP objects should be viewed ? So now I have a new view of what the definitions should be for what is a "class"? For  what is an  "object",  "attributes", "methods", the init method and so on; all to be found ( HERE = an earlier OML2code post) Given that, I've re-designed the plan for my expander cookie-cutter (aka 'class') p...
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