Voyaging Mind

Things stay roughly the same but also change a fair bit would be a fair way of summing up the past few weeks. First up python has really pulled me in. At the moment I just really enjoy it. I have read though the book Fluent Python and that really help for me to see that I needed to more past the "Yep python, I know it and code in it just like I code C++" stage that many have when learning python, well replace C++ with what ever language you know quite well. I have not put a lot of what is in the book to practice yet but am looking forward to doing so. I suppose I should explain that the goal of the book is to take someone who has a bit of python experience and explain the more advance features of python. It is about 700 pages (I got the ebook) and does a really good job in what it sets out to do. Well worth a read. The stock market is still attracting some of my attention. Just messing with little algorithms is such good fun. I should write an article or two about it.

Do excuse the slight break in blogging. It was sort of deliberate. I have been a little busy with a few hobby projects. I took a good dive into the Go programming language and I think I like it. No in a wow this is amazing more in a yep this can feel a little restrictive compared with C++ or others but I get what you are trying to achieve here and can like it. Probably the only thing I didn't like about it was the use of Capital letters to mean publicly accessible. It is weird that I don't like it  - it just feels well wrong. Given a few thousand lines of code I would get past this and if that is the only thing I have to complain about. In terms of development Go is moving pretty quick at the moment, lots of libraries appearing and generally a good vibe about it. I am not planning on committing any more time to it but overall I was left with a good feeling about it. One to watch in the future My other little project involved stocks and shares. After reading a couple of ar