More GitHub, my sickness, and adventuring with Udacity.

Hey peeps! So my last post with any substance in it talked about a flashcard app I found for Chrome.. which I kinda became frustrated with, so I'm just back to writing classic flashcards on index cards. Ah well... n00bc4rd$ for n00bc0d3s, I suppose.

I had a confusing evening and morning with GitHub.. I attempted creating a local repo and pushing it to GitHub but the GitHub app wasn't finding my local repo even though I had successfully committed everything.. I took screenshots of everything as I was excited to rant about it to you guys, went to bed, and then when I booted up and checked the app again suddenly my repo was there.

I think GitHub is toying with my mind. Perhaps an ex-boyfriend of mine died the moment GitHub was created and was reincarnated as the GitHub app? All the more reason to learn how to enslave GitHub once and for all...

...but before I moved on to do that, I had a lovely phone chat with Mr Dean Machine who I started learning Python with last summer. I kinda fell off the boat with Python after being discouraged, but he continued on and has made some amazing progress. Today he urged me to look at Udacity for learning some new things, and for further solidifying my foundation in Python. Despite the website kicking me in the balls every few hours and then running away acting like I'm trying to molest it, leaving me unable to access my course or continue with the exercise I was working on for roughly 30 minutes, I'm really enjoying it. Not sure why that's happening to me.

I didn't expect to learn anything in the first unit, but I've never done anything web-related and a big chunk of the first course is centered around web-crawlers and creating a search engine, so it's giving me a fresh insight into the potential that a language like Python has buried under its scales.

Here is a happy little drawing the instructor of the course drew when talking about procedures (or functions as I call them):

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..if you don't get it, you're obviously not 1337 enough.

Anyway, I haven't started development of my text-based game yet. I plan on taking a crack at that tomorrow sometime. The winning idea was a combination of random ideas submitted by a Facebook friend, Ryan, combined by another friend, Justin, into the following:

"Perhaps combining some of Ryan's ideas would be the best approach. I think I'd play a game about a Canadian race horse who puts his cupcake-related Kickstarter project on hold to run for President against a skateboarding drag queen shark."

          ...sounds legit enough!

Right now, my brain is killing me because it's leaking out of my nostrils. I've been hit with a cold in combination with my horrendous allergies, and I'm all drugged up (as per usual) so I'll save the real work for when I'm slightly less zombified. 

Until then.. stay awesome, everyone!