[PaulHoule]

I really enjoyed the Python course at Hackerrank. I knew a lot of Python already but it deepened my knowledge and I felt like there was little friction and I was having fun all the time. I did some other courses at Hackerrank and they were good too but not as good.

I self-taught a lot about compilers and related technology in the 2010s, a lot of that came from having projects where knowing about parsers was helpful (e.g. like that project where we were analyzing the results we got from arangodb and we were getting back columns in scrambled orders and I wrote something that parsed the query and could usually determine the intended order of the columns from the query and would feed them in that order into pandas, or that project where I was trying to parse mediawiki markup and later learned that it was easier to just parse the HTML)