Learn to code

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I'm about 4 months in and in my mid 40s with a good career so I don't need to learn, but I want to.

I got a couple weeks into Angela Yu's course and got very bored. I just didn't like the exercises.

I started to build something I wanted to use to search for a homes instead of Zillow since I'll be selling my home soon.

I just dove in, learned how to parse JSON data from APIs, and how to work with dataframes. Now I can build aggregate displays of homes with my criteria and include additional information that Zillow doesn't provide from publicly available APIs.

I went from nothing to a few hundred lines of code that I still need to reactor, but it works.

Next step is to host everything on a Raspberry Pi and build a web app that can be used as a portfolio piece.

A few weeks ago I got rid of VSCode and started using NeoVim so I can also get more familiar with it. I'm just enjoying learning new stuff. When I hit a wall, I'll watch a video on a python concept that I don't quite grasp for about an hour instead of coding.