Today I finally finished the GO track with the dreaded Zebra Puzzle exercise. I started on May 1, 2026 and finished on September 2, 2026. Just over four months. I feel accomplished but not really fluent. I have 33 left[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Yesterday I got two new awards from exercism. The first is Lackadaisical for completing the “Bob” exercise in five different languages. The Bob exercise is one of the ones I like best. Nice and easy without being pointless, and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I got this award for doing five exercises in an app-building language. What exactly is an app-building language. Not sure so I went searching. I found a post about it from exercism back in 2023. Well it can mean a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I just got another award on the PHP track. Studious Student means I looked at at least 50 community solutions. The tracks I am currently working on are Go at 69.09% (51 remaining), and PHP at 31.03% (80 remaining). Sunday,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I am still rough around the edges in PHP. I am only learning it for resume fodder. Today I did some regex just because I could. It was strange that the GO and PHP track both got the Crypto Square[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, I got yet another award. This time in GO for doing revisions to problem solutions. The changes were based on things I liked better that other people did in community solutions. Go me. The PHP track is starting to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I thought I had a ton of exercises left to get there, but today I finished learning mode in PHP and got the Fundamental award. Not sure I am getting the hang of PHP yet. I had to go back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It looks like I am half way through the GO track. I just got the laudable learner award from exercism.org. I have already finished learning mode despite some of the exercises being more difficult than they should have been for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I finally finished the last exercise on the Python track. I really wanted to get it finished so I may have peeked at previous solutions I completed. Which didn’t actually help as much as it should have. Anyway, hooray![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…