Today's Progress: Discovered the challenge, prepared for battle!
- Discovered 100 Days of Code online!
- Forked the original repo to start this challenge
- Revamped my Twitter to follow the official account and minor profile tweaks.
- Took a deep breath!
Thoughts: Here we go!
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Today's Progress: Day 1 of FreeCodeCamp
- Started FreeCodeCamp HTML Classes!
- Worked through activities 1-10.
- Edited this progress and submitted entries for the first time!
- Learned about Project-based Permissions in Jenkins (Link: to Jenkins Documentation) Thoughts: Really optimisitic so far, apart from forgetting that image tags don't follow the rules compared to other tags (will update with a good example in the future) As for Project-based security in Jenkins, very useful but can be confusing as the matrices are vertical insert example of project-based matrix here.
Link to Work: www.freecodecamp.org/mrwillbarnz
Today's Progress: Day 2 of FreeCodeCamp
- Continued with HTML classes!
- Worked through activity 11-15.
- Learned about changes in Python 2 vs Python 3 for my current project (converting Python2 code manually).
- Discovered
, I since forked the repo and I'll investigate later.
Thoughts: Today I found Jenkins-Docker Continuous Integration LA lab difficult today, decided to step back and try again another day, after realising I missed out some syntax with the Jenkinsfile, and subsequent CI/Docker image creation steps. However, the Python 2 to 3 conversion was successful today, so onwards to tomorrow!
Today's Progress: Day 3 (Python-Modernization)
- Started modernizing more scripts from Michael Dawson's 'Python Programming For the Absolute Beginner Second Edition'
- Combed through pages 15-32 modernising the Python 2.3 script to Python 3.8.
- Majority of the scripts were straightforward.
- Took a minor detour finding the project 'Sultan' on Github for ensuring Terminal System bell packages were up-to-date, will test this in a future revision.
- Started learning Google Cloud Storage Provisions on LA.
Thoughts: Today I found setting up VSCode easy and straightforward, however I did have issues with pyenvs, hopefully I can resolve this as I progress.
Link to work: Ongoing Github Repo yet to be released
Today's Progress: Today I progressed through Chapter 2 of 'Python for the Absolute Beginner' and added if-else example scripts to the repo.
Thoughts: Learned more about the nuances between Python2 and Python3 by continuing with this exercise.
Link to work: Ongoing Github Repo yet to be released
Today's Progress: Today I caught up with my Google Cloud Platform course and ploughed on with the Python Modernisation. Diagnosed compilation of a C# application (Specifically ualbion on Github, a cool port of the game Albion. using an Arch Linux Vagrant VM, deployed on my Manjaro Linux PC. I also continued on with the Python Modernization, I'm releasing it today so people can see my progress!
Thoughts: I made some really good progress with diagnosing the Arch Linux compilation package, to see more on this, I posted the original issue below.
Link to work: The ualbion Arch Linux issue:
Today's Progress: Today I contributed to a couple of 'first-timer-only' repos, to practice Git pull-ing and my first commits on the site! Pymodern is now published on Github (Will post the shortened links on twitter FYI).
Thoughts: Alot of discovery today, along with a really useful couple of repos I found for use, will link to them down below, very easy to demonstrate Git-pulling and other useful articles in the second one, might contribute to this one later on in the challenge!
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Today's Progress: Today I contributed to one more 'first-time-only' repo example, specifically the , following the interactive activity to demonstrate how a pull request works (and a tiny bit of JavaScript!). Started to tidy-up my R-code repo, and consolidate my old scripts from my Undergrad days, ideally turning them into smaller modules, that can be called upon without running specific lines. Will upload the public repo once I've found all my old code, and written some pseudocode for the mini-project.
Thoughts: I really enjoyed understanding the Git Pull Request process, will have to spend the next couple of days reviewing what I've done so far. I'm intending to building more GUI apps by the time I've finished the challenge, but slow and steady wins the race!
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Today's Progress: Today I continued my Git pull request practice by using the Git-It application (link in yesterday's notes) followed the exercises as stated on the electron-app. Attempted Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) lab, broke the test servers, setup a Linode account to potentially test more server-side applications and practice server management. Added the final Chapter 4 scripts in 'PFTAB' book.
Thoughts: Good progress made today, but a slower day due to working harder during the week.
Link to work: As yesterday.
Links to research: None today!
Today's Progress: Today I continued my Python Modernisation progress, starting with Chapter 5 scripts. Re-attempted the CI lab on Linux Academy.
**Thoughts:**Reading further documentation will enable me to diagnose and debug the older conditional statements, and the correct Syntax for Python3.
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Today's Progress: Continued with PyModern Project, took a break from previous labs, including the CI one.
**Thoughts:**I felt that I progressed really well over the past week, hoping to continue that motivation onwards.s
**Link to work:**None to report.
**Links to research:**Note to report.
Today's Progress: Continued with PyModern Project, started Puppet Quick Start, on LA.
**Thoughts:**Puppet Quick Start was difficult to configure on my own server, but easier on the labs, due to the packages being pre-installed. Configuration of CA certs was a particular hang-up. Today I learned more about Lists and Dictionaries in Python, by creating the hangman-game.py script.
Link to work: None to report.
Links to research: None to report.
Today's Progress: Today I completed the Puppet Quick-Start course from LinuxAcademy! Now I can automatically deploy an nginx instance from a puppet-master server! Started the #30DaysOfCode challenge on HackerRank. Adding this as one of the sites I go to while I learn, as it physically limits the amount you can learn in one sitting (good for me, as I can't binge the course information).
Thoughts: I thought today was quite rewarding, however it was difficult to grasp what HackerRank is aiming for with each of the coding challenges, however the tutorials as well as extra searching online helped me solve the basic challenges.
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Links to research: As Above.
Today's Progress: Today I completed Chapter 6 of PFAB, and completed a Tic-Tac-Toe game with functions.
Thoughts: Quite please with learning functions, but I will need to catch-up with the other courses I started yesterday tomorrow, as this took longer than expected.
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Today's Progress: Today I completed Chapter 7 of PFAB, and understood how Python 3 now uses Pickle (reading and writing data into files). I also learned about the differences between cPickle for Python 2 and Pickle for Python3, and the best practices (at least the easiest practice) for modern implementations of this program.
Thoughts: Today was quite confusing with pickling data, but I'm treating the logic behind them much like calling data frames in R, hopefully I can remember it as I work with more data.
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Today's Progress: Today I continued from a weekend break on PFAB, Chapter 9, I also finished SQL Server on Linux Quick-start course on Linux Academy, I also started 'Managing and Troubleshooting Encrypted Volumes on Linux' course on LinuxAcademy.
Thoughts: Today I returned the the challenge after a weekend break, which was good for me as I wanted to continue making the same consistent level of progress.
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Today's Progress: For today, I investigated GUI applications, and possibly modernising the GUI present in Chapter 10 onwards using GTK+ platform, for cross-platform compatibility
Will be testing on my Linux installation once the code is fully written.
Thoughts: While I can still utilise the Tkinter library, I wanted to try using GTK+ to allow it to be easily visible on my Manjaro workstation. Finding a decent theme will be the next challenge.
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Today's Progress: Today I focused more on GUI Development, today using the Tkinter toolkit, which is built-in to Python 2 (Will modernise to GTK+ when I find a decent cross-platform theme).
Thoughts: Today the Tkinter module accepted similar syntax to the original Python 2 Tkinter module, moving to GTK shouldn't be too difficult.
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Today's Progress: Today I continued to create GUI applications, using the Tkinter module, today I wrangled with checkboxes and radio buttons. I finished up with the Mad Lib program which tells random stories using user input.
Thoughts: GUI apps are cool, will continue with this later on into the script. Utilising Pygame (or Pygame Zero, not sure which one yet!).
Link to work: Python_FAB_Reimplementation
Links to research: Pygame_Zero_ReadTheDocs
Today's Progress: Today I learned more about GUI apps, and started using the Pygame library (version 2.3 for Python2 for now!).
Thoughts: Really good progress today, I'm hoping to finish the book by the middle of March!
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Today's Progress: Today I complete the PFAB book, and did some simple debugging of my programs, as the LiveWires module was 'modified specifically for the PFAB book', using the LiveWires Appendix found in the back of the book, I'm trying to find the module and see if it can be modified for Python3 easily or not.
Thoughts: I'm really happy I kept continuing with this book, and tried to translate the old Python 2.3 code to Python 3.8, although more difficult for some of the games, this will be something I'll be revisiting during this round of '#100DaysofCode'.
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Today's Progress: Today I started the Ruby 101 Course on Linux Academy, and 'Implementing a full CI/CD Pipeline' course, as this is related to the Learn Jenkins by Doing course, which was part of the lab set I was struggling with previously.
Thoughts: Today I learned more about the Ruby programming language, and its contrasts from Python.
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