Technology
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100 Days of Programming Projects: Reflections and Tips after Day 14 and the Beginner Level Section of the Course
Day 14 marks the end of the beginner level. I just finished that and all in all as expected nothing fundamentally new learned so far. Still, I had some refreshers here and there and learned a couple of nice tricks. Most days ended with a guided programming project that used newly learned concepts of that…
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Mastering Python Basics: Essential Programming Concepts From the First 7 Days of 100 Days of Coding Bootcamp Course on Udemy
The first 14 days are labelled as beginner level. And so far I have certainly not learned any new concepts, it is all about the basics of programming really: variables, conditional statements, loops, functions and the like. Still, most of what I learned so far came from the daily programming projects. During those projects I…
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No Progress with the progress element in WordPress
A few posts ago I reported about the progress and meter elements in html5 and that I had found a way to add these to a WordPress blog. Unfortunately it didn’t work as expected. After entering the html code the block looked as expected but when I published the post I only say the labels…
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100 Days of Code Python Bootcamp Progress
As mentioned earlier I am checking out this course on Udemy to see if it is something worth while suggesting to my son. The first 14 days cover the basics and are labelled beginner and 14 days of coding should be doable for him, these are sessions that take 1 to 2 hours each, watching…
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Serendipity
In the previous blog post I mentioned I was scouting around for a good Python course for my 15 year old son and went of on a tangent about whether AI means you don’t need to know Python at all. Needless to say I still believe that you can benefit from being able to program…
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Why Practical Python Courses Matter for Young (and older) Learners
Recently I was scouting around for a good Python course for my 15 year old son. They way they are teaching it in school is not very practical. There is a lot of text explaining concepts in a web application with questions and code cells where you have to type code and execute. He is…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 4
Chapters 6 & 7. Page Layout & Hyperlinks Chapter 6 is about styling the layout of your page without css using attributes of for example the <body> tag to set the background colour. All of this is no longer done and this particular example didn’t work in my browser. Some other tags that are no…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro: Part 3
Chapter 4 & 5: Creating Images and Using Images Chapter 4 about creating images you can ignore. It still deals with antiquated hardware limitations with respect to connection speed and monitor colour depth. Today, with connections allowing to stream video and online gaming the connection speed is not the same concern it was in 2000.…
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HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
Very long ago, when I was in high school I got my first hp calculator from my dad: a HP-15C. He gave it to me because I had issues with brackets on a standard calculator and with RPN you don’t need brackets. I believe this was in third grade. When things got a bit more…
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Thinking Small. The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle, Andrea Hiott (ISBN 9780345521422, Ballantine Books)
I read about this book in the newspaper when it originally came out in Dutch in 2012. When I was young an uncle had a Beetle and I liked driving around in the car. The boxer motor really generates a unique sound. As a result this book caught my interest and I bought it. But…
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