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100 Days of Python, Project 045-050 #100DaysofCode

Things are continuing to be interesting and useful here with the introduction of Beautiful Soup, a tool used to parse unstructured data into usable structured data.  Well, more or less that's what it does.  Useful for parsing through Scraped Web Page data that does not have it's own API available. As normal, everything is on GitHub. Day 45 - Must Watch Movies List and Hacker News Headline Scraper As an introduction to using the tool, Beautiful Soup, we had two simple projects.  The training project actually feels more useful than the official project of the day, though I also remixed…
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100 Days of Python, Project 001-014 #100DaysofCode

I've mentioned before about the concept of "always learning".    One of those thing is coding.  I'd like to think I'm actually pretty good at basic to intermediate level coding, though I am certainly not an expert.  I kind of feel like I am at a point where I would definitely like to "level up" my ability a bit.  So I've been working on the #100DaysOfCode Challenge, though a course on Udemy.  Specifically, 100 days of Python, and specifically, this course. I've also been using this as an good excuse to sharpen up my Github skills a bit, so you…
Programming (Part 2)
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Programming (Part 2)

I promised a part two so here it is… The first post can be found here. As previously mentioned, my previous self taught programming experience involved BASIC and whatever the TI-85 uses.  I had my first official taste of taught programming in College a couple of years after High School with C.  My Engineering degree required I take “Programming for Engineers” which was basically C programming to solve iterative math problems.  Most of the programs we did were by the book style involving arrays and graph style equations.  The book for the course was actually two books and we only…
Programming (Part 1)
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Programming (Part 1)

Hey, it’s pointless personal trivia day!  Hooray. Anyway, I’ve never taken up computer programming in any official “this is what I’m going to do for work” sort of level but it’s off and on been a background hobby of mine.  I’ve been considering getting back into it lately which has inspired this historical blog post. The first programming language I ever learned any part of was BASIC.  This was around 1987-1988 when I was 7 or 8 years old.  I know this because, at the time, my dad had gone back to school to finish his degree in Computer Science…