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I'm on Windows and Mac, I love how Visual Studio Code looks, I've got it downloaded as well but Atom Editor is the recommended one from the course.

Oh yeah just to keep you updated, I received and blasted through "Computer Science Distilled" which you recommended.

Oh boy, how much I struggled to go through the entire book, definitely one I have to come back to some day in the future, I doubt I understood more than 20% of the book :(

Much more to learn.

Next assignment (though down the line a bit), learn to program in C. The reason is that by knowing how C works, you learn some fundamental things about how computers (and other programming languages) work. You can also interface Python with C to speed up critical algorithms, when execution time ( as opposed to network communication) becomes a bottleneck.

As I said, that one's down the line.

The one thing you really should learn now is how to use some version control system - Git is a good one. That's the reason I specifically suggested Visual Studio Code. It has great Git integration so you can see the diffs right there in the code.
 
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Next assignment (though down the line a bit), learn to program in C. The reason is that by knowing how C works, you learn some fundamental things about how computers (and other programming languages) work. You can also interface Python with C to speed up critical algorithms, when execution time ( as opposed to network communication) becomes a bottleneck.

As I said, that one's down the line.

The one thing you really should learn now is how to use some version control system - Git is a good one. That's the reason I specifically suggested Visual Studio Code. It has great Git integration so you can see the diffs right there in the code.

After this current course, I would really like to learn some code related to blockchain, if I were to carry on the coding journey. Anything to recommend?
 

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After this current course, I would really like to learn some code related to blockchain, if I were to carry on the coding journey. Anything to recommend?

Yeah, don't. Take what you've learned and do something with it. If you just keep learning stuff, you'll have the illusion of being productive... but it will be just that.
 
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Yeah, don't. Take what you've learned and do something with it. If you just keep learning stuff, you'll have the illusion of being productive... but it will be just that.

Gotcha.

Actually have an idea for a coding side project, shall make sure to do something with what I learnt and not keep learning.
 

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As someone currently building a web app, don't fall into the learn-only trap. I studied javascript for 4 months and didn't learn sh*t about it until I started working on a project of my own.
+1. "Learning" languages is the ultimate action-fake. (Ask me how I know...) Looks like you're doing something Useful but it's mental masturbation unless you DO SOMETHING with it. And you will learn it much better by actually using it for something real that you care about.
 

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As someone currently building a web app, don't fall into the learn-only trap. I studied javascript for 4 months and didn't learn sh*t about it until I started working on a project of my own.

Haha seems to be a really common problem with learning, I will bear that in mind!

Have 2 ideas for side projects to try out once I've completed the course, using this thread to keep myself accountable as well.
 

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+1. "Learning" languages is the ultimate action-fake. (Ask me how I know...) Looks like you're doing something Useful but it's mental masturbation unless you DO SOMETHING with it. And you will learn it much better by actually using it for something real that you care about.

Got it, thanks for the reminder!
 

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Browsed through udemy and omg there are so many interesting courses it's going to take alot of deliberate effort not to fall into the trap of learning too much as mentioned by multiple folks above.

Gonna be deliberate with my learning and come up with a plan to BUILD something after every course.
 

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When I learned Python and Django I just did the tutorial in the Django Docs. Gets you pretty productive in a short time. Then I started modifying the Polls app and ended up with a Wiki and Blog engine (long time ago haha).
What I love about Django is the freaking awesome documentation. I don't really think you need any courses besides Django docs and Stack Overflow to build really cool stuff with Python and Django.

Currently having a similar experience with just awesome free quality documentation. I'm using Rust and the free Rust Programming Language online book when building my current project.
 
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When I learned Python and Django I just did the tutorial in the Django Docs. Gets you pretty productive in a short time. Then I started modifying the Polls app and ended up with a Wiki and Blog engine (long time ago haha).
What I love about Django is the freaking awesome documentation. I don't really think you need any courses besides Django docs and Stack Overflow to build really cool stuff with Python and Django.

Currently having a similar experience with just awesome free quality documentation. I'm using Rust and the free Rust Programming Language online book when building my current project.

Wow interesting to hear. Django still doesn't sound that easy to me but hopefully things change ;)

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Wow interesting to hear. Django still doesn't sound that easy to me but hopefully things change ;)

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Oh, didn't mean to imply (good) programming was ever easy. It's hard! Just meant that the documentation can be as good as any course if you just want to get shit done with that specific framework.
 

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Oh, didn't mean to imply (good) programming was ever easy. It's hard! Just meant that the documentation can be as good as any course if you just want to get sh*t done with that specific framework.

Haha yea my objective is really just to get good enough to manage projects and to get hands on with simple projects.

I'm proficient with basic stuff like Wordpress but would really like to understand more about the code behind and would really like to understand the tech behind blockchain more as I'm pretty heavily invested.

May I know if you had prior coding knowledge before you learnt Django?

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Time for a splash of cold water. I tried being a little subtle about it, but I was ineffective. That's my fault. You may think I'm being rude and I probably am.

The thread is called a story of rapid execution, and yet here you are spending 100 days writing code that you won't put into production. That's the very opposite of execution. You admit your addiction to "learning" (really, just short circuiting your brain's dopamine response with trivial accomplishments) yet don't seem to keen to kick it. Udemy courses? How is that going to put money in your pocket?

How about you take MJ's cues and start building better forum software? Django is fine for that, and you can hack together enough open source stuff to make something work in ... about 100 days or less.

For comparison, I knew very little of Django, and even less of javascript, yet this week I've managed to assemble the core logic of a prototype for a machine learning application. I had to learn how to use JS to handle some basic front end preprocessing, how to deploy a machine learning model to production, and how to handle the backend logic (i.e. calling the model) with Django. I did this by cobbling together open source code, tinkering with it to see how it worked, and reading documentation and relevant tutorials (many of which are out of date and lead me in the wrong direction) to fill gaps in my understanding.

It took me about 10 hours of focused effort (about 25 pomodoro). Granted I already had prior knowledge of machine learning, and a little exposure to Django... but even starting from scratch it wouldn't have taken me 100 days.

I'm not trying to brag here, as I still haven't actually accomplished anything (no sales!) but I want to illustrate the folly of these X days of Y challenges. Sure you may learn a lot about syntactic sugar, but unless your goal is to be an expert at syntax, they aren't going to help you with anything useful. You're far better off formulating a problem, breaking the problem down into steps, and learning just enough to deal with those steps.

There are still far bigger problems to solve after you finish the code. Code is easy to figure out. The psychology of the market? That's truly difficult, at least for those of us hardwired to create software.
 

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How about you take MJ's cues and start building better forum software? Django is fine for that, and you can hack together enough open source stuff to make something work in ... about 100 days or less.
Django Packages : Forums
Most of them are probably open source (MIT, BSD or similar license). Grab one and improve it?
 

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Time for a splash of cold water. I tried being a little subtle about it, but I was ineffective. That's my fault. You may think I'm being rude and I probably am.

The thread is called a story of rapid execution, and yet here you are spending 100 days writing code that you won't put into production. That's the very opposite of execution. You admit your addiction to "learning" (really, just short circuiting your brain's dopamine response with trivial accomplishments) yet don't seem to keen to kick it. Udemy courses? How is that going to put money in your pocket?

How about you take MJ's cues and start building better forum software? Django is fine for that, and you can hack together enough open source stuff to make something work in ... about 100 days or less.

For comparison, I knew very little of Django, and even less of javascript, yet this week I've managed to assemble the core logic of a prototype for a machine learning application. I had to learn how to use JS to handle some basic front end preprocessing, how to deploy a machine learning model to production, and how to handle the backend logic (i.e. calling the model) with Django. I did this by cobbling together open source code, tinkering with it to see how it worked, and reading documentation and relevant tutorials (many of which are out of date and lead me in the wrong direction) to fill gaps in my understanding.

It took me about 10 hours of focused effort (about 25 pomodoro). Granted I already had prior knowledge of machine learning, and a little exposure to Django... but even starting from scratch it wouldn't have taken me 100 days.

I'm not trying to brag here, as I still haven't actually accomplished anything (no sales!) but I want to illustrate the folly of these X days of Y challenges. Sure you may learn a lot about syntactic sugar, but unless your goal is to be an expert at syntax, they aren't going to help you with anything useful. You're far better off formulating a problem, breaking the problem down into steps, and learning just enough to deal with those steps.

There are still far bigger problems to solve after you finish the code. Code is easy to figure out. The psychology of the market? That's truly difficult, at least for those of us hardwired to create software.

Thanks for the good intentions! My bad for not giving a proper preface and going straight into posting the challenge.

My "money-making thing" is not coding.

It's marketing, stuff I've talked about before on this thread etc.

Coding is something I've always wanted to learn but have been "too busy" and the objective of this challenge is to make myself proficient at coding by the end of the journey.

As you can see, I'm doing like one lesson a day and I'm of course not taking the entire day to learn stuff; if that was the case I can see how it might be a problem.

I never really thought of my obsession with learning an addiction that ought to be "kicked", it's in fact a big contributor to who I am today.

But I can definitely see how a "learning journey" isn't apt for a thread that's titled in such a way that it's supposed to be about execution lol so yeah I shall definitely work on that.

Hope this makes sense.

So speaking of execution, I do already know what project I'm going to build at the end of all this learning. Once I've got through the entire course, I'm going to go through this short 1.5 hours course: Build a Crypto Currency News Site With Python and Django (yeah I know, yet another course, but my knowledge of coding is currently so little I think I really need to go through these before I can actually code something)

After which, plan is to build out a project I assume is really simple (for someone who actually knows how to code lol) called "John Eats John(?)"

Long story short, John Mcafee made a prediction on BTC price (if he loses his bet he promises to eat his john on national TV) and what my project is going to do is a put up a picture of the guy standing up straight and as he gets closer and closer or further and further from winning his bet, his body will bend lower and lower, or higher and higher.

Hopefully my background knowledge from the first course helps, and with the second course I'm supposed to learn how to work with API's from places that provide crypto prices, hopefully the knowledge in addition to lots of googling will allow me to get the project done.

Domain (johaneatsjohn.com) has been bought, look forward to actually building something at the end of it all.

It's kind of a joke/fun website but hopefully it goes viral etc, would be really cool and a great first project I guess.
 
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Thanks for the good intentions! My bad for not giving a proper preface and going straight into posting the challenge.

My "money-making thing" is not coding.

It's marketing, stuff I've talked about before on this thread etc.

Coding is something I've always wanted to learn but have been "too busy" and the objective of this challenge is to make myself proficient at coding by the end of the journey.

As you can see, I'm doing like one lesson a day and I'm of course not taking the entire day to learn stuff; if that was the case I can see how it might be a problem.

I never really thought of my obsession with learning an addiction that ought to be "kicked", it's in fact a big contributor to who I am today.

But I can definitely see how a "learning journey" isn't apt for a thread that's titled in such a way that it's supposed to be about execution lol so yeah I shall definitely work on that.

Hope this makes sense.

So speaking of execution, I do already know what project I'm going to build at the end of all this learning. Once I've got through the entire course, I'm going to go through this short 1.5 hours course: Build a Crypto Currency News Site With Python and Django (yeah I know, yet another course, but my knowledge of coding is currently so little I think I really need to go through these before I can actually code something)

After which, plan is to build out a project I assume is really simple (for someone who actually knows how to code lol) called "John Eats John(?)"

Long story short, John Mcafee made a prediction on BTC price (if he loses his bet he promises to eat his john on national TV) and what my project is going to do is a put up a picture of the guy standing up straight and as he gets closer and closer or further and further from winning his bet, his body will bend lower and lower, or higher and higher.

Hopefully my background knowledge from the first course helps, and with the second course I'm supposed to learn how to work with API's from places that provide crypto prices, hopefully the knowledge in addition to lots of googling will allow me to get the project done.

Domain (johaneatsjohn.com) has been bought, look forward to actually building something at the end of it all.

It's kind of a joke/fun website but hopefully it goes viral etc, would be really cool and a great first project I guess.

How can you be a professional marketer? where is the product or do you just sell anything?
 

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How can you be a professional marketer? where is the product or do you just sell anything?
Hey mate, sorry for the 4-year late response!

That's a fun way to put it but I do actually sell anything that I know how to sell, whether it's eComm, affiliate programs or whatever else.

Gonna make an update to this thread in the next post if you're interested!
 
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WOW!! I started this thread like FIVE YEARS AGO!

It's such an amazing thing to leave a trail online, looking back on actual words you actually typed with your hands in a distant past is such an amazing feeling.

I recently met up with a new entrepreneur friend and we were chatting and I really felt he could benefit from fastlane forum and thus recommended it to him and encouraged him to start a progress thread here as I felt it benefited me a lot back in the day.

That made me realize I haven't been here in a long time and I decided to check back in and get back my INSIDERS membership and I decided to revisit my old Progress Thread and discovered this unfinished piece of history.

So when I started this thread my daughter was actually 5 months old. She's now 5 years old, growing well, pisses me off occasionally but I LOVE her to bits.

Super cool, let me make an update on all these shenanigans I wrote about in the past!

Buying google traffic to high ticket newsletter:
Now that it's been so long ago, I can disclose that this campaign was to a crypto newsletter. I think I spent something like $700 and I remember my affiliate commissions were something like $22,000 or so. One thing to note is that I sent $700 worth of traffic blind because it was all leads, and conversions only came at the end of the campaign where a webinar was to be held, so there definitely was risk there. Things went well though, that's very good ROI!

Last-minute ADHD Facebook promo I did to send traffic to a new Krabi resort:
I posted that I paid like $30 for the Facebook traffic yea? I don't know how much I ended up spending, but all I know is I ended up getting 4 nights stay for FREE for their promotion and I ended up buying another 2 nights stay and brought my extended family comprising of 6 adults and 2 kids there and we had a WHALE OF A TIME so this ended well too!

Masternode Project
It feels funny calling this a "project" lol as after all these years, I AM STILL running my NULS and VET masternodes! ALQO ended up kind of a failed project, I invested like $20k in that and think I pretty much lost it all. Win some lose some I guess!

Coding Journey

Learning is a never-ending journey and I'm still learning for sure but I'm glad to report that in the meantime I've been active in the crypto space and have seen some success investing as well as building in the space. I also founded a web3 wallet project so even though I wasn't the actual developer, I guess I did kind of make use of the learning. I am also now actively involved in NFT's and my current profile picture is from a project I love called CyberKongz!

Daily Challenge
I also executed on this but not sure why I didn't update on here, guess I'm just no good at updating stuff. I ended up 30 days or so of this dailychallenge I think but it didn't get any traction and with the steemit prices going down the drain I dropped this project and considered it a failure.

BUT I did recently get a new idea that had its roots from this old idea; it's called CheckMate i.e. "Checking on you, mate" / "Checkmate, you dead", geddit? It's also going to be an accountability sort of concept and it's still somewhere in my list of todos to implement. Maybe execute in a revival of this thread? Lol.
 

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As for what I've been up to recently. Apart from small projects here and there, building websites, selling stuff online, building up my writing skills, I guess the biggest thing is that I was in Indonesia for most of the time past 9 months assessing whether it was feasible for me to take over our family business, a furniture factory.

Long story short, language proved too big a barrier, time away from family was too much, and I am back home for good. Learnt a lot of things for sure, but it just wasn't a good fit.

I'm still pretty much hustling in the crypto space, working on my web3 wallet project as main while taking on interesting projects and challenges here and there.

Excited to keep learning and experimenting, life is good, peace out!
 

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