I spent most of today day continuing to go through the Python textbook. Most of the book is nothing new, but it’s good to be clear about concepts like how Python iterates over a list, and I now have a more confident understanding of polymorphism. Rupa solved our programming problem from yesterday (it totally did have to do with scope, as I suspected), so I had to learn git pulling to reap the rewards of her work.

In the morning, I ran a brief workshop on Inform 7, which was fun because Katie is working on a homebrew system for interactive Harry Potter fanfic, so she had thought of various interesting questions about how Inform does things.

I also was frustrated with having to separately open the new markdown file generated by the rake task (first world problems, etc) to make a new Octopress post, so Kate helped me with just enough Ruby to add opening the new file to the Rakefile. Convenient! I’m continuing to poke at the template stuff of this blog, but in sort of a scattered way, so I expect this blog to look ugly in various exciting ways over the next week. I may make more concerted efforts to learn about Sass/Liquid when I run out of Python.

Lastly, I took a brief break from the Python to investigate the Oculus Rift which has been sitting on our toy shelf. Here’s Moshe’s mind being blown: