Diary Entry 14/09/26 - Python quiz program + dictionaries

 Today I worked on a quiz program in Python and dictionaries. I began with the quiz program. Recently, I have been spending a lot longer on these videos peer reviewing my code and trying to understand each line to the best of my ability. This way I can come back to these screenshots and figure out what to do. I am still getting mixed up with nested loops and this project allowed me to use multiple variables with both lists and tuples as well as creating 2D collections to iterate within nested for loops. I adjusted some code from the tutorial to be written clearer.

Next I worked on dictionaries and the different methods that can be used with the keys and values within them. As before, I wrote comments within the screenshots.

 

As well as Python today I worked on some written work on the side unrelated to Python, however it was productive towards my goals ahead.

Diary Entry 7/09/26

 Today I am beginning to get back into routine of working on my projects for the foreseeable future. I was very busy today and only had time to work on some python projects. I am continuing the python tutorial videos and writing comments beside them to explain the lines of code. The tutorials fail to explain them in detail so I am ensuring I understand the functionality.

I began by following up from the last coding session which focused on lists, sets and tuples.  I created a program to create a custom shopping cart where you type out the food item and then the price you want to list it as.

Writing the comments is going to help me to learn a lot easier alongside the tutorials to learn the functionality for myself to apply it in my own projects to come back and look.

 Next, I moved onto learning 2D collections. This was a bit confusing to learn but by the time I completed the exercise developing a number pad I figured out how to work it out easier.

I wrote some comments in the exercise to help me understand it better and it helped a bit.

 

Diary Entry 17/08/26

 Today I finished off the Blender basics tutorial with rendering and basic lighting. I added in some point lights to act as a skyline as well as a sun. I then added some planes to act as blockers for directional light and to give the environment a more roomy feel. I played around with the lighting in the scene as well as some camera settings and render engines, both cycles and EEVEE.

As you can see here this is the scene as well as the hierarchy with items parented to each other. Below you can see the renders of the doughnut and the mug. The first image was rendered with cycles and the second EEVEE. You can see the stark difference. Cycles looks much better but needless to say lighting needs improving. In future tutorials I will play around with more of the tools to offer.

 

 

As well as the point lights, a volume light probe was used to project more natural casting shadows around the doughnut as well as depth of field adjustments for the doughnut to be the primary focus.