It was a fairly quiet month on the coding front. The first half of the month was largely taken up by a visit to Poland - to the cities of Krakow and Warsaw. I had a great time and I definitely had my fair share of pierogi. Here’s the progress that I made in August -

This month mostly consisted of readings. I made my way through HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites (Duckett, 2011), JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development (Duckett, 2013), and I started Python for Data Analysis (McKinney, 2017). The web development books served as both a refresher (I’ve already got quite a bit of experience regarding HTML and CSS) and a primer for the freeCodeCamp courses that I hope to start in August.

This month I got to grips with the use of virtual environments and the integration of Git in Visual Studio Code. I also set up the Windows Subsystem for Linux so that I can use Bash. I put some more work into the GUI data entry automation project - it is now complete and I have built it into a windows executable via pyinstaller.

This month mostly consisted of working through Automate the Boring Stuff (Sweigart, 2015); Think Python (Downey, 2015); and the end of Python Crash Course (Matthes, 2015). I thoroughly enjoyed all three books, completing most of the exercises in Automate the Boring Stuff and Python Crash Course - the exception being the final project of Python Crash Course, the Django app.