Learning Python The Hard Way

A quote from the first page:

As you study this book, and continue with programming, remember that anything worth doing is difficult at first. Maybe you are the kind of person who is afraid of failure so you give up at the first sign of difficulty. Maybe you never learned self-discipline so you can't do anything that's "boring." Maybe you were told that you are "gifted" so you never attempt anything that might make you seem stupid or not a prodigy. Maybe you are competitive and unfairly compare yourself to someone like me who's been programming for more than 20 years.

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit, keep at it. Force yourself. If you run into a Study Drill you can't do, or a lesson you just do not understand, then skip it and come back to it later. Just keep going because with programming there's this very odd thing that happens. At first, you will not understand anything. It'll be weird, just like with learning any human language. You will struggle with words, and not know what symbols are what, and it'll all be very confusing. Then one day BANG your brain will snap and you will suddenly "get it." If you keep doing the exercises and keep trying to understand them, you will get it. You might not be a master coder, but you will at least understand how programming works.

If you give up, you won't ever reach this point. You will hit the first confusing thing (which is everything at first) and then stop. If you keep trying, keep typing it in, trying to understand it and reading about it, you will eventually get it. If you go through this whole book, and you still do not understand how to code, at least you gave it a shot. You can say you tried your best and a little more and it didn't work out, but at least you tried. You can be proud of that.

Reading List - 10

Ancient Greeks

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
Tragedies of Aeschylus
Tragedies of Sophocles
Tragedies of Euripides
Histories by Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Dialogues by Plato
Works by Aristotle
Letter to Herodotus and Letter to Menoecus by Epicurus
Ancient Romans

Treatises of Cicero

On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
Aeneid by Virgil
Works of Horace
History of Rome by Livy
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Parallel Lives and Moralia by Plutarch
Germania and Dialogue on Oratory by Tacitus
Enchiridion and Discourses by Epictetus
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letters From a Stoic by Seneca

If you’re looking for a big picture tour of classical culture, I highly recommend two lecture series from my favorite college professor, Dr. J. Rufus Fears: Famous Greeks and Famous Romans.

Favorite Apps

Mac:
Notational Velocity

Web:
http://momentumdash.com/


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Book Recommendations by James Altucher

Book recommendations by James Altucher

1. Mastery, Robert Greene
2. Bold by Peter Diamondis and Steven Kotler
3. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
4. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
5. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
6. Born Standing up by Steve Martin
7. Zero to one by Peter Thiel
8. Quiet by Susan Cain
9. Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
10. Mindset by Carol Dweck

https://medium.com/life-learning/the-ten-most-important-books-to-expand-your-brain-a387cc0c5db6