The Iterations of Doom!

It’s been a few sessions now since that first day at L2D. Our first session looked at the basics of operations and conditional statements. I have personally gone through these before, so it wasn’t too complicated. Also, it is great to palliate the demanding task of learning a language by starting with a certain level of advantage!

Learning variable types, print function and even arrays (nested or otherwise) was not too challenging. The exercises were simple enough to be achievable, yet interesting to put the lessons to practice. I particularly enjoyed working with conditional statements, because I can already see their application in real-world scenarios.

As the weeks progressed, I felt like the knowledge I had once acquired had been nicely fitting in with the lessons. I found it very useful just to learn how to think logically, when learning Python. Understanding the order of the syntax and how to design the code to make sure functions are performing correctly was the most valuable part of these first few weeks.

And then, iterations arrived… I honestly thought everything was going well, and I felt confident about it: but iterations just changed it all.

The Friday session made sense, we learned some examples of the ‘for loop’ and ‘while loop’, and I personally left the lesson making sense of it – until I had to try it, myself. I felt like I only understood two processes within the loops, ‘print’ and ‘length’.

After reading the materials a couple more times, and a lot of searching online, I managed to gather enough information to do the assignment exercises, but I do feel it’s going to get steeper, from here.

Saying this, so far I really have been enjoying the lessons, and I’ve enjoyed the creativity involved in being able to do the assignments in our own way, of course reinforcing everything we’ve learned, but dipping into a creative way to solve problems.

Let’s see what next week brings…

Written by Ainhoa Rodríguez Pereira, edited by the Learn To Discover Team.