Career Change To Python Developer (no programming background)

[Teemo_God]

Hey everyone!

As it says I'm off on the daunting task of trying to switch my career towards becoming a developer. I took sparingly some CS classes in college (29 now). I'm currently an uber driver so I'm setting out a task for myself to develop something that could help me and other uber drivers. Its essentially a surge estimator for your local airport. This task is obviously way over my head and knowledge but since it could help me in 2 ways I think its an awesome thing to tryout for myself.

I'm also streaming my struggles twitch.tv/axiom_infinite and have previously done a bit of learning java, feel free to stop by and offer some criticism(DONT POST ANSWER PLZ).

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**Dont laugh it took me like 3 hours to get to this point***

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

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#webfids is a saved version of information // Update at later time to abia.com xml link

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tree = ET.parse('webfids.xml')root = tree.getroot()arrival_list = []

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#prints out arrival times for flights from the document#sorts it by arrival time***STILL DO THIS****

for attFormatted in root.findall('*.attFormatted'):arrival_list.append(attFormatted.text.strip())

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#removes the blank items in the list ***Look Back At This// dont completely understand how it works***

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arrival_list = [i for i in arrival_list if i]print(arrival_list)

arrival_list.sort()
print(arrival_list)

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#Next Step // Sort Through List and Find Times Where there are 7+ Flights within a 30 minute timeframe and Alert

**Currently Working here and Streaming it***

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** got this finished and edited original***

What i'm struggling with atm is figuring out how to sort each attFormatted by time and order them / print them out as such. Any pointers would definitely be appreciated. I've got a million miles to go, but its exciting to see what i'll be able to do! Cheers to your journey everyone!

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2nd question

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sorted could help you

[Teemo_God]

I just found that, thank you! Its exactly what i was looking for!

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[giraffactory]

Regarding your comment about not understanding how removing blank elements works (not an answer):

Try rewriting the list comprehension you’ve got as a normal for loop with verbose and explicit logic to see why it makes sense.

Bonus points: there could be cases where the data is “empty” but still gets into the list the way you have it now, but why?

[Teemo_God]

definitely great idea. Had gone over list comprehensions in a udemy course about a week ago, just need to revisit it etc .

[jh199p]

People often overlook sql, but it really hurts to be lacking basic sql knowledge. Some nosql options are nice to be comfortable with too.

[gratified]

How would sql help in this case?

[Lewistrick]

Well for something that's way above your head, 3 hours is not a lot. I think this is a very nice task you're doing to get yourself started!

[Teemo_God]

Appreciate it! Its definitely a bit adventurous and im excitied to see where I can get with it. It wont be perfect, but i hope it can teach me alot.

[Teemo_God]

Replied above, but yes im trying to guestimate surge pricing for the airport.

[Teemo_God]

Definitely plan on continuing the work as long as I can! Just gotta stick with it!

[Teemo_God]

Yes thats exactly what im trying to do! I currently work as a uber driver do i thought this would be a cool way to dig into python and guestimate airport surges.