Project 1: Project retrospective.

Wow, so that was hard, I definitely didn’t stick to it, especially toward the end.

I think certainly doing some programming each day, is quite a hard goal. Compared to something like say, making your bed, programming, no matter how small it is, involves engaging the brain, and that can be difficult.

But that said, the effort to work on it each day, did get work done. So I think definitely worth doing again.

But at the same time, I think more gets done in longer sessions. I think the real key for programming, is to constantly be adding the small items (eg. ask that question on Stack Overflow) to your backlog, and those smaller items can be done in the evenings.

Project 1: Day 15 – Not much.

Just looked at the github project, seeing where it’s at.

Project 1: Day 14 – Updated Github project.

Some code was sitting in a zip file (don’t have access at to github at work), and I’ve commited to that to Github branch.

One thing worth mentioning, is also that updating this blog can be hard when I’m at work, because the browser doesn’t work nicely with it.

Project 1: Day 13 – Two modules with same method names.

Worked out what happens if you have two modules with methods/variables of the same name.

Project 1: Day 12 – from… import

Continued work on import comprehension. Sorted the from… import.

Project 1: Day 11 – Learning ‘from’ imports.

Very quick, perhaps 15 minutes, but just edging away learning these imports. It’s all going into the tutorial page.

Project 1: Day 10 – namespaces in imports.

Continued working on the other blogpost re: modules, imports, etc.

Project 1: Day 9 – Python import comprehension.

Started a blog post on my dwjohnston.wordpress blog, about python imports and modules, packages etc.

https://dwjohnston.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/python-modules-packages-from-import-basics/

Project 1: Days 6, 7, 8 – Zero days.

Absolutely nothing done on days 6 and 7. Was travelling/sorting out flat on those days.

Today, I had work, came home, went for a run, sorted out flat, made dinner, and now its 10:50pm. I have given a quick read of the python import documentation, but haven’t understood it.

Project 1: Day 5: Reinventing the wheel.

My cousin has pointed out that I could be using NetworkX for my graphs, instead of homecooking my own.

This seems to be a classic problem with me – reinventing the wheel, instead of learning to use existing libraries.

I think what I’m going to do, is persevere with the project in its current form, as what I’m really wanting to get out of this is learning unit testing, and good code structure, rather learning to use external libraries.

How far I got:

• Started writing an addSubgraph method.
• Started unit testing spatial graph.

It’s not working because I need to sort out how imports work. I’m giving up here for now.