• 1 Post
  • 17 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 9th, 2023

help-circle







  • I’m using a similar API, I think IMDb wasn’t publicly available or something like this? I don’t remember exactly. I need Polish actors if that makes any difference.

    Good idea with focusing on the main features. I wanted to try this at first but with web appinstead of the usual console app was a little awkward but I’ll look into this again.

    Currently the number 1 issue is extracting actor names. They don’t come in json like an array or something, they’re only available via parsing a page so a string with html markup and stuff. There was some confusion because when I asked about that, I might’ve described it wrong because people on the server thought I’m doing web scraping? I’m not sure if it counts as scraping if it’s from an api though. I’ll have to clear it up probably but that last misunderstanding was really stressful.



  • That makes sense. I arrived to a similar conclusion so I’m switching the tasks up from time to time but I think I’ll reinforce that because right now it’s not planned out the best way. It can be improved.

    Maybe, ironically, doing other tasks will actually help me accomplish more of the main one. I feel like it could work that way.



  • I only described it here for context, usually I focus on the functionality itself, unless the bigger picture is needed even though it’s a little difficult for me to tell which details are important and what can be omitted. Sometimes despite my best efforts there’s some confusion and making it right is consuming a lot of energy.


  • It works similarly for me with the motivation thing. I don’t have anything against learning things but I wish it was easier to find information about more complex things than just the most basic stuff. It’s the problem with all those courses. They’re great as a “starter” but after that point, you’re on your own in a weird void. The documentation doesn’t help much as well. Tutorial hell is a weird place to be in.