Today I learned how to:
- write loops and conditional statements;
- format print statements;
- use the date and time modules;
and put them all together in version 0.2 to create a log file of the events I want to record.
Thank goodness for online documentation and Stack Overflow. In the process I also learned something of what it is that I'm trying to do. I also had my first spectacular crash, with a flood of tracebacks and informative warnings.
Thinking by doing, succeeding and failing is so much more enjoyable than just sitting and musing. I do have a little voice pricking up now and then, wondering whether this is worthwhile. It can shut up.
Next, I need to get it to act on the information that it is collecting and analysing.