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What was the interview for?

Yeah I can't for the life of me figure that stupid bug out. I tried to put it in its own while loop while seperating part of the code into another while loop or if function and it didn't work. Actually made it worse so I'll leave it. Maybe I'll ask my friend for help once he's free from work.

Till then back to studying.

Are you talking about the part where you choose either left or right?

You can force it like so:
first_crossroad = ""
while first_crossroad != "right" and first_crossroad != "left":
[indent] first_crossroad = input("Right or Left?").lower()

That'll loop the input part until the user inputs a correct value. You can also replace the while condition with:
while first_crossroad not in ["right", "left"]:

Then you don't have to put an "and" between each of the acceptable commands, you can simple add to the list. You can even make it more programmatic by maintaining the list elsewhere, e.g.:
acceptable_commands = ["left", "right", "back", "forward", "batman"]
while first_crossroad not in acceptable_commands:
[...]

I'll take a look at your code when I can.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/while-true-learn

Free game. I don't know anything about it but seems interesting.

Forgot to comment on this. It might be a decent tool to get started on logical concepts in programming, but it's much more preferable to actually write out code. There's somewhat of a gap to jump between a point-and-click interface and actually writing out code.

Been playing Endwalker to be honest

Just saw this. Haven't looked at any of the books yet. I'll do some research tomorrow or Thursday.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/programmer-advice-that-wrox-your-world-wiley-books

Nice. How is it? I've been playing Animal Crossing and Pokemon Diamond.

I've been wanting to get back into Pokemon. Still have unopened Pokemon games back from the 3DS era.

Does anyone know of any good / current javascript learning resources? Or maybe some books? I'm starting to get farther along in this course I'm taking & I think I need extra help while doing it.

You're gonna pick up Java and learn it alongside Python? I'm thinking maybe a year more with Python then I'll start looking into other languages.

You're gonna pick up Java and learn it alongside Python? I'm thinking maybe a year more with Python then I'll start looking into other languages.

I started my Python journey around last February/March. I learned a lot but I was getting to this point where I needed to learn more than just Python. I felt like I wasn't doing enough by focusing on one language, and it was causing me to get really burned out. I still really love Python and I plan on picking it back up early next year, but I feel like if I learn more languages and learn more about computer science, it will overall make me a better Python programmer. There's still a lot I want to do with Python, like new projects I want to make. But I'm giving myself a break for now until I can recover mentally from spending so much time on it.

Just a reminder that Java and JavaScript are completely different languages. I hate that they named it JavaScript just to latch onto the hype surrounding Java at the time.