My first Tech degree Project

Hi Rafic,

I like using VS Code for Python, it has extensions for Python syntax highlighting and linting, it has a docked terminal that you can run python and pip from without leaving your editor, and it has decent github integration.

A lot of Python devs love PyCharm, but I won't talk about it because I haven't really used it. There are a lot of options.

I find the best way to retain the information from the Treehouse units is to do two things: 1 - Write my own tiny toy programs. (see below) 2 - Redo the coding challenges - utilizing the official docs, rewatching parts of videos, or as a last resort google searching where I get stuck. 3 - Learn from a secondary source - Treehouse is great, but sometimes a concept will take two or three different explanations before I fully "get it". I've been casually reading a Python ebook I had lying around from a humble bundle while doing this course and it's very helpful to have the same concept explained in a different way. Not because one is better than the other but because they are different and through seeing what is different and what is the same about an explanation you start to get at what's core to the concept and how it might be applied in varied situations.

re: toy programs I will generally write one or two small programs that I keep extending and refactoring while studying any language. For instance during the python course I've written a simple app to read JSON from a file and put it in a dictionary, then as lessons went on, breaking those dictionaries down and instantiating classes based on the data in the file, then performing operations on those classes via their methods, then dumping to a csv, then reading the csv back in and grabbing parts of it with a regex, etc. etc.