Day 14 — Searching, Styling, and Some Python Funk

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🔎 Day 14 — Searching, Styling, and Some Python Funk

Today was a heavy logic + new syntax kind of day.
I started CSS, finally! But also got into some really interesting areas of both Python and C++ that felt confusing at first but kinda cool once they clicked.

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✅ What I Did

💻 C++ – Arrays and Search Algorithms

• Practiced:

  • Pointer arithmetic: using *, &, pointer math

  • Linear Search and Binary Search

  • Reversing arrays using loops and temp vars

• It was a mix of DSA basics and pointer practice

🐍 Python – All the Advanced Bits

• Learned:

  • map() and reduce() functions

  • The walrus operator :=

  • Function arguments: *args and **kwargs

• Wrote small test programs for each — definitely need more practice, but it’s fun!

🌐 Web Development – CSS (Finally!)

• Started CSS today! 🔥

  • Learned how to use <style>, style="", and external CSS

  • Tried basic styling properties like color, background, font-family, and spacing

• It’s exciting to see things look different now, not just work

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🔗 GitHub Pushes

• cpp-practice/day14-pointer-search.cpp

• python-vault/day14-func-magic.py

• web-dev-start/day14-css-start.html

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🧠 Reflections

This is the stuff that used to scare me — pointers, decorators, args, layout.
But now I’m just picking it apart one piece at a time.

Every language has its quirks. And I’m learning to love them.

That’s Day 14. Logged and done.