Our first large test was last Friday. The exam had us build out a site using Django that allowed a user to login and register, then “poke” other users. This required a table showing who had poked you and how many times.

When I first started the assignment, I felt like it shouldn’t be TOO bad. I assumed a simple counter could be used to keep track of the pokes. Things were going fairly smoothly for the first 3 hours, but then I hit an error that had haunted me for days. This prompted me to make my first StackOverflow post. Sadly, I ran out of time an did not complete the assignment. I hope to do better Wednesday when we retake the test.

This week is our last week of the Python stack. This means we are all breaking into groups to work on projects that demonstrate what we’ve learned thus far. My ladypal and I are working on a project that we’ve been kicking around for sometime involving our cat, Cicero. We’re building a website that tweets out randomized tweets based on whether or not Cicero has been a jerk on that particular day. Cicero likes to shake his food bowl when he’s hungry, often waking us up during the night. The plan is to hook a Raspberry Pi up to his food bowl, and use a gyroscope to monitor movements. Once the bowl is moved, the Pi will tweet out that Cicero has been an asshole today. This could also be used to monitor less silly things, like a refrigerator door being opened.

Hopefully the project will come together and I will have something fun to show off by the end of the week.

IOS starts next week. I’m excited to get started with iOS, because that will be the bulk of what I should be doing for work outside of Coding Dojo.

As always, thanks for stopping by.