Old Man Learns to Code

On the Internet, material about PYTHON, HTML, CSS and more is infinite. A survey of the material to be learned about Python , HTML , CSS and yet more (e.g., IDE's, BAT files, VBA) will show that the journey never ends. One can easily lose one's bearing and head towards the wrong North star. It is vital to have an organized approach. To the right is a screen shot of part of my Bookmarks Bar in my browser. The righmost folder on that bar is labeled with " . It points to a Month's accumulator folder that identifies this month (e.g. " April 2025 "). Each day, I append into the Today folder those URL's that I deem as worthwhile learning opportunities. When the Today folder is full, I move it into the Month folder. When the Month folder (e.g. "April") is full, it gets moved inot the "Recent" folder But that's not all. Each URL that gets appended into the "Today" is immediately edited in its description fiel...

  Why would a 70+ year old wanna-be- coder bother to blog anyway? Time is short. The beach wave that this Baby Boomer rode in on is fast receding. Memories of its doings will soon be erased. A fresh wave of energized Gen Z'ers is rolling in, foaming with new life and excitement. They own the beach head now. They own the beach head now. Or so they think --until their underlying wave pulls them back into the oblivion of forgotten history. So it's not for posterity that we blog. It's for the now. It's for journaling for journaling's sake . It's for putting to digital paper our current thoughts so that at least we might ponder on them even if no one else cares. Just the act of putting into words these thoughts might be therapeutic. As one young medical student explains in the attached video to the right, it's about putting your thoughts out there for possible exposure. Who knows what may come of them? Maybe nothing. Maybe something significant. If you d...

  CONFESSION: This is not my first attempt at learning to code. It's been years. And now that I'm over 70 years of age, the learning process is a whole different experience. Perhaps my shared frustrations will help others traveling up the learning curve in their later years. Back Story: Back in my 40's, I registered for a college night course to learn what was a new programming language for me. (They called it 'C' if you must know.)  The class demographics (mainly men) could have been neatly divided into three groups: (1) The 20-30 somethings, (2) The 40-50 ones, and (3) The over-the-hill 65+ elders. No sooner did the teacher start delving into C language syntax than the hands went up. Yup. It was the  65+ elders. " Could you repeat that ?"  " Can you go slower? " " I don't understand what you mean by that! " It was clear in that very first class session that we were going to have a crash and burn scenario for ou...