cansat VS codewars.com

I have a project with unit tests written for stm32f4, but I the same technique applies for any MCU. https://github.com/grupacosmo/cansat

I already started working on the codebase with one of the Junior students, check out our [cansat](https://github.com/grupacosmo/cansat) repo.

The second time I started all over, though, everything started to make sense. I loved js. If you read my previous article, you'd probably remember me mentioning I was addicted to solving algorithms on Codewars and HackerRank. It was mostly Codewars, though. It kept me up so late into the night. I can recall not sleeping a wink, this particular day, until about 6 a.m, because I was solving algorithms 😂😂.

Codewars: Solve fun programming problems called "katas" that range from easy to hard, in many different languages.

Practice. Challenge Yourself Practice makes purr-fect code! Write code regularly, work on small projects or exercises to reinforce new concepts. Also, solve coding problems. You could participate in coding challenges (e.g HackerRank, Codewars, etc.) I remember I used to love Codewars. They have pretty interesting challenges - I was kind of addicted 😅

I did some traveling around the western US in late 2022 to take stock of where my life was and where I was going. During that time I decided that I would go all-in with my coding education, and committed to learning the remaining material listed on those bootcamp syllabi that I had not yet studied – namely, connecting the pieces of the MERN stack; learning about automated testing and data structures & algorithms; and studying development paradigms & methodologies like Agile, Scrum & Kanban, and OOP design patterns & principles – as well as continue to develop my programming fundamentals on platforms like Leetcode and Codewars.

My first encounter with regular expressions was in a solution for a coding problem on Codewars, specifically Count the smiley faces! Which asks you to count the number of smiley faces in a given array but the catch is each smiley can have 1 of 2 kinds of eyes (: or ;), may or may not have a nose represented by 1 of 2 symbols (- or ~), and 1 of 2 symbols (D or ) ) for the smile. In total there are 12 different combinations that are a valid smiley. I, being the young and naive programmer I was, hard coded all 12 of those faces and checked every element against that list. And it worked! But the top solution included some strange syntax that I had never seen before

Embrace Challenges: Challenge yourself with platforms like Exercism and Codewars that offer a wide range of coding challenges of varying difficulty levels. Additionally, consider exploring niche topics through courses on platforms like Coursera and edX.

@OP DO NOT go on the path of perfecting it and parting with your time and money. Go with Jake Vanderplas's whirlwind tour of python whirlwind tour of python to get some basics and then jump into the river codewars and swim upstream daily and religiously until you reach to katas level 5. You will be good to go. My personal experience.

Codewars: Codewars

You can try Codewars, they have a diverse range of practice problems(Cryptography, Data Science, etc.). Basically if you wanna get good in a programming language, you have to work on a lot of projects and practice problems.