Happy holidays everyone, I’ve (almost) completed my Intro to Python course and am excited to share some news and updates! Python is a hot programming language used for all kinds of applications and is in much demand. I’ve made three interesting apps: a drawing app, an multi-language translator, and a personal assistant application that manages a to-do list and a birthdays reminder. Unfortunately, I can only share the drawing app with you, because the other two use a module that has been unable to fix its issues with the server used to display the programs: Repl.it.

So check out this simple drawing app using a module called Turtle. To use it press the green “Run” button and follow the instructions using the black screen underneath the program on the right. This is my first Python app and isn’t very flashy, but it works! Take a look at the code on the left, that’s Python. The code that goes into the other apps is maybe 500 times bigger. https://repl.it/@EMcDz/110-L7-Hard-Get-Creative-with-the-Turtle-Module-Starter#main.py As soon as we can find another way to get those running I will share them too.

This is the fourth programming language I’ve learned and I’m really enjoying it. What’s great is that they all have similarities that make the next one easier to learn, so I picked it up much faster than the others even though Ruby is probably the easiest one.

Now for the news. I got some great advice from tech-wizard, super-homie, keeper-of-the-cactus Matt Schiller who helped me decide my next avenue in the industry. I will be focusing on what they call the back-end, which is basically programming. It’s a lot more interesting to me, plus there’s a lot more opportunities for the future.

Also, for some really cool news, one of my best-buds, three-time-doubles-golf-champion-partner Stephen Rankin is founding a new app that’s coming out in March called Chillow. It’s kind of hilarious, but also exciting roommate finder app with swiping and some really innovative features like ex-roommate reviews and some other maybe more secret functions yet to be unveiled. He gave me some intel on which programs to focus on that would be useful to his company in the future. I’ll have a pretty good shot at an entry level position there!

Both of these guys were roommates of mine – I wonder how they’d rate me on Chillow… Super stoked to have some awesome friends to help guide me down this path. Next year was so much better, can’t wait to come out of this thing alive.