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Practiced Basic Python on HackerRank (05/23) #59

Open anitabe404 opened 3 years ago

anitabe404 commented 3 years ago

Motivation/Problem Statement 💭❓:

A Python a day, keeps the doctor away... maybe 😂

Today's Goal/Solution 🥅:

Start course 3 in the Python for Everybody Specialization. This course gets into using Python with web data. I'm curious as to what we'll be doing. Perhaps scraping?

Result 🍓🍌🍉:

I spent today dabbling in all sorts of Python stuff. I did an exercise on Exercism, started the Python basics track on HackerRank, and watched the regular expression lecture videos from the Using Python to Access Web Data course. I have a love/hate relationship with RegEx (mostly hate).

Observations & Next Steps 🔭👣:

Some things I want to learn more about:

I also want to go over the resources that the Exercism mentor sent me when he gave me feedback on my solution.

References 🔗:

Link any useful resources you may have found throughout the day.

Extra/Fun (Optional) 🎈🎉🥳:

Had fun Sunday lounging around, coding and napping. 😴

r002 commented 3 years ago

Haha, HackerRank! I have an HR account too! 🙂 What's your handle? I've long been inactive but I'm at: https://www.hackerrank.com/r_002

Btw, regex is awesome! I love regex. Out of curiosity, when you say "love/hate"-- what do you love and hate about regex?

anitabe404 commented 3 years ago

@r002 When Regex works, it's awesome, but sometimes figuring out the sequence that will extract what I want is tough. It'll grab only a portion or more than I want. I've had some success with it, but I've also struggled to understand it. Also, I don't use it often, so I expend a lot of time learning it only to not use it for months and then forget everything.

I'm anitabe404 on HackerRank as well.

r002 commented 3 years ago

@anitabe404 Totally-- I've definitely been there. For example, you define a pattern that you think will work but then it doesn't grab what you're expecting. I still remember my very first time learning regex and I didn't know at the time that for wildcard *, you could define lazy and greedy versions of it. Haha, we've all been there! 🙂

Btw, do you use https://regex101.com? It's useful!

Also, I've friended you on HackerRank! I don't use HR these days, but just in case!