Programming is...

Programming is all about getting the code to do what I want, and not what I told it to do.

Naming conventions are important

People not following naming conventions is going to drive me insane. 

Xxxx_xxx_dddd is not the same as Xxxx_xxx-dddd.

Ok, so check if char 8 is... No wait, just get rid if char 8... Xxxx_xxxdddd doesn't care if there used to be a - or a _ there.

Ok, thanks for helping me figure out how to fix this.

It runs faster!

 I refactored some code, cutting run time by 34%.

The program runs once a day, takes 5 minutes, with 4 minutes of that being 2 rounds of "Wait 120 seconds and make sure we really disconnected". Around 6hrs of writing, testing, and getting approval to save 7 seconds of time per day. 

This is the life of a junior.

Can AI code?

 Today for fun I wanted to see how much I could do just using AI code.

Below is the prompts I used:

1. Using python, I want to create a todo type app that uses json to store the data
2. Based off the code above, add in a due date
3. Sort tasks by due date
4. Add in a priority rating for task, sort task by due date and then by priority.
5. Have option 5 show a list of uncompleted tasks, and a list of completed tasks
6. Add in an option to edit existing task, including description, due date & priority
7. Rather than using the command line, lets create a html interface

Step 6 I hit the first thing it didn't take into account. If you edit a task that already has a priority but remove it and don't assign it a new one it would assign it null, and then couldn't show the lists of tasks. I wrote my first bit of code and changed None to 0. Step 7... it tried to use enumerate in the task filter, which didn't work. I told it the error message I was getting and it offered me 2 fixes. Both worked, so I went with the simpler one.

Then I found out the edit button didn't bring up the edit form. "Oh hey, sorry. Here are some fixes to the JS"... still not working. Fed it all of the code in index.html. "Here you go. I had left the edit form empty". That worked.

Link to the repo I am storing it in, with pictures, and arrows, and a note on the back: https://github.com/krgirard33/todo_app