So yes, I've been an engineer for a month now. I'm one month into my contract. Over the past 4 weeks, I've been growing in confidence and ability. I'm no longer terrified of dictionaries. I'm using them everywhere now. I'm also using tuples and regex. Who would have thought that one month as an engineer in working environment that I would be happy with dictionaries and actually... dare I say it, love them?
At any rate, I have to hand it to my lead engineer. He's been giving me assignments that build up on each other. My first script was difficult (bash scripting is hard!). The second script was a bit easier, but I had to learn how to make my script read XML and edit it. The third set of scripts had to do more with parsing XML in Python and extracting data from it. The next set was writing a simple Tableau workbook in Python (basically making Python write XML). And now, I'm using Python to extract a different set of data from the XML and return some info that can be used by our data analysts.
Each assignment has led to the next assignment which is usually comprised of minor adjustments and refactoring and some new code.
It's been fun and interesting, challenging and enjoyable.
So, I'm doing well with my new career. Hopefully, I will get hired full time. Not sure if I will. I'm trying not to get my hopes up. Sigh...
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