Pausing to Glance Back at My Own Slow Progress Up the Left Side of the Exponential Learning Curve
It's not uncommon to see a newbie complaining on Reddit (see example here) about the "frustrating feeling" of making essentially no progress in learning Python.
If I volunteer an encouraging response to that reader, it will often include a spiel about climbing along the left side of an exponential function where the slope is near zero, but nonetheless positive, and thus they are making progress.
Also I tell them that one day they will cross over to the right side of the curve and then their wings will unfold and they will soar into the stratosphere. The payoff will come. So have faith and keep going. Don't give up when you hit a valley of despair.
But what about me? Have I made any progress? Is some form of payoff finally showing up?
It's been a few months since I started. At first I was thrilled if I could make even the simplest of code snippets work (I was atop Mount Stupid)
Then I crashed and fried in Circular Module Hell.
I survived though. Now I'm importing my own and others' modules almost like a pro. I don't panic when a module is not found in my current venv folder. I just jump into PyCharm's Terminal window and pip in the missing module. No sweat.
Here is a sample of some recent importing I was dong to get fancy with my console output: (click on image to enlarge)
And here is a sample of some console output:
Not seen are the browser tabs that are automatically opened using webbrowser to dig deeper in the study session and learn of practical uses for the subject string method (one of 47 according to Indently) ... TO BE CONTINUED
Comments
Post a Comment