Post #20 Restart blogging (again...)

It has been more than a year since I updated this blog and it seems to me that I have not practiced persistance like I should have. I re-read blog post #17 Persistence and felt bad about myself since I did absolutely nothing of what I wrote.

Update from then to now

I have been relatively quiet on the coding front and honestly, I'm not sure what happened. I'm trying to piece together what I've done since September 2021 and I don't remember anything significant, therefore, I've been looking through my Pycharm projects to see what files are there and through my sparse Github commit history.

It's pretty bad. Here's the run-down:

• I did not totally finish the Introduction to HTML5 and CSS3 from freeCodeCamp Post #19. I completed the module lessons, but not the small projects. I think I just lost interest in the projects that they had recommended.

• The Django project concerning the Dragon Warrior Monsters database Post #18 hasn't gotten anywhere at all, but it has been on my radar.

• Flask tutorial (July 2022)

  • A ToDo app for Flask again with freeCodeCamp
  • I was trying to learn Flask since it seemed like a better framework for a read only database for the Django app idea above.
  • Didn't even try making another Flask app after doing the tutorial

• minesweeper tutorial (July 2022)

  • Again, a freeCodeCamp tutorial, originally by JimShapedCoding
  • Used Tkinter to create a minesweeper game and learn about OOP
  • I was able to improve upon on the initial tutorial with recursion and other QoL improvements to make it look like the original game.
  • Kind of proud of this one, although it can do some refactoring. See it in my github

• leetcode run

  • I had a good leetcode run, where I did at least try to solve one problem each day from the middle of July to the end of August.

I'm like 1 for 5 in terms of wins in projects and did somewhat OK with learning data structures and algorithms while doing leetcode and reading through various textbooks and online sources.

My projects didn't continue and that's the problem. I didn't have a specific goal.