Dakota Learns

First Post – Blog is Live!

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

First Post – Blog is Live!

The site is up!

Oh, hello there. Thanks for stumbling across my first post. If you haven’t already checked out the “What is this site?” page, I’ll give you a sec to read that over.

Virtual Environments - What, Why, How?

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Virtual Environments - What, Why, How?

Now that the food coma has subsided, welcome back to my blog!

Level Up in the Job Market

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Level Up in the Job Market

Hello again, fellow denizens of the Internet! Thank you for visiting again/for the first time.

Personal Progress Update #1: 2022-12-11

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Personal Progress Update #1: 2022-12-11

Hello again! Thank you for stopping by my blog again.

Life and Loss

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Life and Loss

Wow, it feels like a lifetime ago I wrote my "Personal Progress Update" blog post. Two deaths will do that, I suppose.

Entity Relationship Diagrams

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Entity Relationship Diagrams

Oh, hello there. I'm glad you found your way back to my blog!

Installation Guide for Python - MacOS & Windows

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Installation Guide for Python - MacOS & Windows

Welcome back!

Why, hello there! 👋 It's been almost two months since I last blogged to you all about ERDs (Entity-Relationship Diagrams) and we walked through some foundations as well as use cases for them.

How to Access Credentials [Securely] in Python... or not?

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

How to Access Credentials [Securely] in Python... or not?

I'm starting to feel like a broken record.... welcome back, again!

Personal Progress Update #2: 2024-03-11

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Personal Progress Update #2: 2024-03-11

Welcome back to the blog! It's been too long.

As we're over two months into the year already, I wanted to revisit my blogging I started back in 2022. The start of this venture feels like a lifetime ago and so I feel it in order to start with revisiting my goals as I've committed to for 2024. One of my goals is at least quarterly (or 4 times a year) to blog; this shall be the first. Let's get started!

Installation Guide: Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Installation Guide: Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Welcome back to the blog! 👋

I've talked with friends and coworkers a lot since my recent blog post; in these discussions, I realized a central element was the fact we were communicating. Be it body language, verbal, written, or other mediums of communication, all of those conversations enabled myself and those around me to exchange information and share knowledge. This led me to think about my desire to start a Python installation and series of articles to help one learn Python - in order for these to be successful, we need to be speaking the same language. The best place to start with that in a programming context is with the installation of your first IDE. Let's get started!

Installation Guide: Python 3.x 🐍

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Installation Guide: Python 3.x 🐍

Welcome back so soon after the last post!

I had a lot of fun writing the Installation Guide for VS Code; so much, in fact, that I didn't want to wait around too much before I created the guide meant to follow it - an Installation Guide for Python 3.x!

Learning Python 001: "Hello, World!" and IDLE

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:07:12 +0000

Learning Python 001: "Hello, World!" and IDLE

Welcome back! I'm very excited to share the following blog post with all of you as the first in a series titled "Learning Python". I've had the idea for a couple of years now and am so elated that the time is finally right to get this series started! This series will focus on building up your knowledge of the Python programming language assuming you have no prior programming experience but are wanting/willing to learn. It'll build sequentially (so post #100 will be harder than post #001), but some posts closer together in numbering may have similar level of content.