Fluent Python and a reinstall of Linux

-
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.

As I was had a slow bank  holiday weekend I decided it was time to reinstall linux - I assume others get similar urges. For the past year or so I had been using Linux Mint but decided it was time to return to pure Ubuntu. I am not really sure why other than I felt like a change. Plus I like reformatting the hard drive to remove many of the small bit of throw away code that always end up scattered around my drive. As you would expect these days the install process was simple and the time it takes is really proportional to the speed of you internet connection and the size of the applications you like to install afterwards.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fast iteration

-
It is fair to say I am pretty obsessed with fast iteration cycles at the moment. It was a motivating reason I relooked at coding in C. I found I enjoyed coding in C but sometimes miss the algorithms that exist in C++’s STL.  It really depends on the task. What I realise I had not thought about much is getting fast iteration speeds by leaving behind system levels languages. Using something like Java, Kotlin or  C#. All compile pretty quickly and I  get some superb tooling with them. Of course it means leaving behind memory efficient data structures.   For some projects this would be not a bad idea. I have had the urge to create a few small games and started to write one in C++. It only occurred to me tonight every time I do this I fail.  The only times I  have successfully release anything to the public I have been using  Java. Weird but true. I should also blog more :)
Read more

September 2018 Start of Geek Month

-
September always seem to be my so called geek month for me. August is usually pretty busy so September is a good time to get back into computers. So far this month I have taken the time to learn a little bit more about CMake. That is actually read some tutorials and updated my knowledge to a more modern version of it. I have renewed my knowledge on building things with emscripten and then started to combine the two to start to create a simple little game library in C++. Only a few hundred lines so far but progressing. An of course I have written this blog post. I have not written a blog post for such a long time. On the list this month is getting opengl/webgl working with the game engine and a few other small things on the TODO list. After that I am not sure, I think I make take a look at the programming language Zig as it has been on my watch list for a while. I have spent a bit of time with Rust this year and enjoyed some parts of it but am happy to wait a little longer for the Eco s
Read more

Quick(ish) Sweet Potato and Tuna Steak

-
Image
Until this week I had never cooked a tuna steak. Occasionally I had them in a restaurant but never at home. While out shopping I noticed in the frozen fish section they were priced at a reasonable price. Ok it was Asda and they were £3 for four. I thought this is a good price to experiment with them. I admit I had fairly low expectations.  The image above shows what I managed to throw together in about 20 minutes. While lots of recipes marinade the tuna or add a sauce I decided that for my first go it should be simple. I am sorry but when I am experimenting I forget to weigh things but here is the recipe. Ingredients A frozen Tuna Steak. A medium size sweet potato. A handful of french beans (I used frozen). Seasoning and oil. A big handful of salad. Peal the sweet potato and slice into thin circular sections as per the picture. Place the oil in a large pan and heat then add the sweet potato. Fry for a couple of minutes while you cut the french beans into an inc
Read more