I've been geeking out with trying some programming. I took a Java semester course as an undergrad in 1999, and while I enjoyed it, I wasn't convinced I had could cut it as a computer sci major (I spent so much time trying to fix coding errors). I've done HTML and by extension some Javascript and PHP that is related to it, but only modifying existing code, never creating my own.
Based on some popular opinion, I started with Python recently, and by start I mean getting in over my head with a project as opposed to going step by step through a course lol Over the weekend I've been messing around with Strava's API and basically figuring out how to bulk extract my own data to individual files through code and then graph it, which is a little pointless because there are already a million ways to get and analyze data! But it's been fun, I kind of want to build a whole PMC site for myself, which again is super impractical considering the number of free/paid options which exist. Python is supposedly all the rage for machine learning, though I don't see myself breaking any ground in that area
If anyone has any neat ideas of what to try and do as far as building analysis or stuff to do with Strava data I can try and see if I can figure it out, it'll just take a really long time!