Notating my own slow progress: Editing Python in Visual Studio Code. There are strange impediments, always.
It is almost impossible to understand instructions on the first reading. But patience. Who wants to blog about reading the strange prose of tech-splanation? Unless it’s blogging about the strange patience that it takes to read online instructions. So: patience.
It all comes so much faster when you just muck around — until you don’t know what you’re doing, and you’re stuck for a week, and you watch the turtle passing you by…
And now, after years of slogging along in my own half-cocked patterns in Xcode, I see I have not made good use of ‘extract variable’ and ‘extract function’ over my years. And the REPL should be such a time-saver… what have I been doing, during all of this progress?