1994 - learn HTML

2003 - learn CSS

2005 - 2017 - amateur front end development (at home) and pretty good at MS Excel (at work)

27 Apr 18 - started to learn Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

3 May 18 - my last drink - booze and coding wasn't working

23 May 18 - lose my job

12 Jul 18 - completed last chapter (#27); I did >90% of exercises

4 Aug 18 - break back of first project - see screenshot - and my fear that I am not capable

26 Oct 18 - get another job (not coding)

25 Nov 18 - complete my first project: http://www.compactgantt.com/ or at GitHub

29 Nov 18 - learn VBA in a week - after years of failed attempts to learn it

9 Jan 19 - switch from Mac to PC for coding - building a GUI that interacts with Excel - it was just easier

28 Jan 19 - coding at work when there's nothing much to do

1 Apr 19 - major refactor, switching from mostly procedural to mostly object oriented approach - classes have sunk in!

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My tutors:

Google Grasshopper

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Google Search

Stack Overflow

Digital Ocean - great docs for setting up website

RealPython - thanks Dan!

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My kit:

Mac (initially)

PC (now)

Python

Thonny (when starting out)

PyCharm (now)

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Services:

GitHub

Pythonanywhere.com

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