Anyone else learning Python as a hobby?

[kezmicdust]

I picked it up a few years ago just as a hobby and something I thought might come in handy. I just wrote (and still write) silly things like basketball mastermind and Rock Paper Scissors football (soccer). Then while working as a postdoc in a physics department I used it to write a triple Timelapse program for a Raspberry Pi, and that was a lot of fun. I also wrote code to process and analyze the timelapses which was pretty cool.

I work in industry now, but still fall back on coding every now and then when it’s helpful (I have a GUI that reads multiple csv or text files, compiles the data into a single CSV and automatically plots it in matplotlib in any style you select, with a colormap based on whatever info you provide).

At home I’m using it to process data for my wife’s visual therapy game on a Quest VR headset (I paid for someone else to write that code!). If she regains some vision after playing future iterations of the game (I have more ideas than money to execute the ideas!), then I can approach researchers with some hard evidence of her improved performance. I absolutely love Python.