I decided to go for the Slimline September award and started the Perl track on exercism.org. It strangely seemed like the least foreign programming language. It is probably the easiest to set up too. Speaking of setup, I didn’t get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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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…
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…