Monday, July 13, 2015

Week 3, day 1

Today, I finally decided that I needed to switch from Windows. I have been struggling over the past couple of days with commands like pip or even just running a python program from command line. I tried this several times, with both versions 2.7 and 3.4 of python.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13596505/python-not-working-in-command-prompt
Still no luck.
The reason I am using Windows is that I am on my brother's laptop, and he partitioned most of the memory for Windows. However, there is enough memory on mac for me to work, and it is so much easier. I initially had a problem with the mac mouse not doing what I wanted, as for some reason it was able to get signal from the completely broken trackpad. I was then able to download BeautifulSoup for parsing with python, and then I continued my NodeJS tutorial.
http://nodeschool.io/
Unfortunately I had done it before on Windows so my progress was not remembered, but I began to understand the concept of modules more thoroughly. I would highly recommend nodeschool and look forward to putting what I have learned to use.

1 comment:

  1. How far did you get on NodeSchool? When you say you "began to understand the concept of modules more thoroughly", what is it specifically about modules that you understand?

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