Going to Learn Python Now : Pt. 5

Alright, it’s been a grueling, hard day of playing Rogue Legacy… now for a breather with some relaxing python.

We’re into lessons 26 -> 33 of http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

Exercise 26: Congratulations, Take a Test!

• -so this one is an exercise in correcting bad code, copy and paste then analize and fix
• -I think I’ve got it all fixed… however the shit that’s happening in the file is kind of arbitrary… so without a “correct” version to compare with, I’m not 100% sure that it’s all done the way it’s supposed to be. But that said, I’ve fixed lots of mistakes and it all seems to compile and “make sense”

Exercise 27: Memorizing Logic

• -supposedly I’m to memorixe the tables here over the course of a week. I laugh in the face of memorization.
• -though looking at the tables, these are terms I’m already familiar with from C++ and Hscript and VEX… so… wheee
• -yeah, nothing new here

I used roller blades (inline skates) for the first time yesterday. I fell backward, and hit my head on the concrete. I’m glad I was wearing a helmet, but my neck is stiff 🙁

Exercise 28: Boolean Practice

• -I haven’t seen
  

  not (True and False)

  before, but I totally understand it. It’s odd that there’s a space between the not and the parentheses though.

• -so the act of typing this in python was new, but the concept is not new

Exercise 29: What If

• -still getting used to the idea of colons and indents being the only thing that sets something as a function. I’m so used to the curly brackets, and semi-colons.
• -Nothing else about this is new though.

Exercise 30: Else And If

• -shortening “else if” down to “elif” makes sense to me

Exercise 31: Making Decisions

• -I think I’d prefer to use %r over %s in ithe “well, doing %s is probably better” part as it repeats what you’ve typed back with quotation marks.
• -hooray for text adventures

Exercise 32: Loops and Lists

• –
  

  for number in the_count:

  seems a little odd to me… we’re doing a for loop but not really specifying what it is we’re counting… I guess python just “knows” that we’re processing everything in the list?

• -I guess the take away here is just to remember that we use the word “list” rather than “array” or “matrix”

Exercise 33: While Loops

• –
  

  i = i + 1

  could be replaced with

  i += 1

  but python doesn’t understand

  i++

Progress!