👋 Hey there, I am Waylon Walker
I am a Husband, Father of two beautiful children, Senior Python Developer currently working in the Data Engineering platform space. I am a continuous learner, and sha
At its essence most of what we do is just manipulating raw text. Once you get over the hump of syntax and a few basic patterns there is something addicting about creating things out of plain text that gui's cannot. Small programs can be connected together in fascinating ways to do things that could not be feasible without additional work for each iteration.
What I used to do in my past job was essentially going though dozens of homegrown websites and tools, merging data into excel, and creating presentations. It works great for one offs, but it doesn't scale the same way. I cannot do spend 4 hours to create a separate output for 10K products, or keep them up to date. With a bit of code I can create the first report in a similar timeframe, update in seconds rather than hours and scale to 1000's of products rather than a handful.
Excel runs the world, but it still does not integrate well into and out to other services well enough.
Find a project that you care about and solve it, learning for loops, search, sort just for the fun of it is not that interesting.
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At its essence most of what we do is just manipulating raw text. Once you get over the hump of syntax and a few basic patterns there is something addicting about creating things out of plain text that gui's cannot. Small programs can be connected together in fascinating ways to do things that could not be feasible without additional work for each iteration.
What I used to do in my past job was essentially going though dozens of homegrown websites and tools, merging data into excel, and creating presentations. It works great for one offs, but it doesn't scale the same way. I cannot do spend 4 hours to create a separate output for 10K products, or keep them up to date. With a bit of code I can create the first report in a similar timeframe, update in seconds rather than hours and scale to 1000's of products rather than a handful.
Excel runs the world, but it still does not integrate well into and out to other services well enough.
Find a project that you care about and solve it, learning for loops, search, sort just for the fun of it is not that interesting.