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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 number of things:

• Web applications, the bread and butter of a lot of our days now
• Native apps like those that run on your phone or tablet
• Desktop apps that directly run on your Windows, Mac or Linux operating system
• Domain specific applications
• Business applications
• And more!

So what are the languages?

We’re looking at a whopping 14 languages: ABAP, CoffeeScript, Dart, Delphi, Elm, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, PureScript, ReasonML, Swift and TypeScript.

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Seems like GO should be on the list but I probably got it for PHP. It looks like there was a whole year of awards, and they are still active.

Do I want to see if I can get another month award? The languages for September are not favorites. I could maybe try AWK. If I do it seems like I am supposed to do Gigasecond, Atbash Cipher, Darts, Luhn, and Series exercises. I don’t know anything about AWK but it sounds better than Forth and Perl variants.

Looking back at my awards I do have Analytical April and Object Oriented October, so I am already a quarter of the way there.

I also got this one for finishing half of the exercises on the PHP track. PHP turned out to be quite a bit nicer than I expected, but I still haven’t got a working debugger with it, and I had to figure out how to get PHP Unit running more than once. Not sure what I am going to do when I get to exercises where echoing variables won’t cut it.

I do have the physical make code arcade player now. I haven’t done anything with it yet. I still need to get compiling working locally, and set up the device. I think I want to try making a no-name Tetris for it.

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 exercise one after the other.

I still need two more PHP exercises before its percentage passes up what I did in the Ruby track years ago. I guess my numbers were off in the previous post. Anyway, a new trophy, hooray!

I really should learn Laravel if I am going to make PHP learning proper resume fodder. Can you think of any web apps that are easy but not a to-do list? I may go to the library and see if I can find a book on it.

Update from the next day: PHP is now ahead of Ruby in my exercism.org track rankings. Also similar to the Crypto Square synchronization from yesterday, I had Diamond exercise on PHP yesterday, and today it was the next exercise on the Go track. Spooky that you have the same exercise on two different tracks so close together two days in a row.

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 and do a new exercise in C# since they ruined my 100% by adding a new exercise. That kicked my posterior. I think I am switching around between languages too much and it is confusing me more than making me a programming language polyglot.