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It looks like I got another exercism award. This one is Persistent Perfectionist for submitting revisions for 20 exercises. Today’s PHP was a simple exercise (GO was a hard one). I thought I did it well but when I checked against others they had it as basically a one-liner. So I had to update to match. I couldn’t let that stand when PHP has a dedicated function to do the string translation (it was DNA to RNA by the way).

I am really disappointed by the books I have been buying on Amazon lately.

The WebGL book I got was a mess, there is no complete sample code in the book or on the web that I am aware of and it doesn’t give you enough to boiler plate to do the exercises it wants you to do at the end of the chapter. There are only code snippets in the book. It got me to look elsewhere for code to do the exercises but it disheartened me before I got half way through. I still want to go back and update my python teapot example with the updated code at some point.

My Azure book has an insane font that makes my head hurt reading it. The lower case i doesn’t have a dot on it, making things frustrating to read. It is strangely bold and large too. Also, I am thinking it is not giving me the full meat, this seems a too simple so far. Why do the job applications need you to have five years experience if it is just clicking buttons. I will get back to that one eventually, hopefully it gets better.

My second AI book has me asking why it is even using AI. I know it may be to illustrate a point and their might be savings later but he wants to generate a letter and spends several pages making prompts longer than the letter he is generating to generate the letter. Then he has several back and forth conversations with the AI to get it to not sound like a robot. It would have been much faster to just write the letter. Also when he is done the AI is suddenly blocking out days for a follow up without ever looking at the author’s calendar. <Old man>Do kids these days not know how to write a three to four paragraph letter?</Old man> I am not sure it even has the AI code generations stuff I wanted. I may have goofed up there by not reading the description well enough.

All of that is to say I ordered yet another book (I think I have a problem). This one is for Laravel. I am nearly two-thirds through the PHP track on exercism, and I want to do a project with PHP as a capstone project of sorts. Not sure what it will be yet. Something to-do list-like.

I only have 10 exercises left in GO (all hard, and I will be using prior solutions as a guide, sorry). Then I can start on the Making an Interpreter in Go and Making a Compiler in Go books in earnest.