The first five days were as much about learning about to code than about learning to learn how to code.

Hit a few walls trying to run scraper scripts in the last two days, so figured I would spend a bit of time ensuring I had no gaps in my basic Python knowledge - from setting up proper coding environments to learning the ins and outs of how functions are built.

For context, started learning Python by building toy programs and useful tools with Automate The Boring Stuff With Python, which was great - but feel didn't cover some materials which are now needed for the coding I'm trying to do (e.g., those more complex scrapers!)

With that in mind, I spent some time shopping around for explainers and found this series of tutorials called 30 Days of Python (it's on Youtube!)

So far, so good! Learned how to use the Windows PowerShell (had been using IDLE or VSC), learned about positional vs. keyword arguments, what 'main' is, et caetera. Lots of the stuff in that series I knew about (data types, lists, dictionaries, string manipulation) so going through the lectures at 2x playback speed.

Plan going forward: push through this series, get some code going on.