Devlog 1:

Day 0 Log - I am currently starting my first project in a while as a beginner programmer. I am creating a Python tool that processes NASA star datasets to plot a Hertzsprung-Russel diagram using matplotlib and pandas. I’m writing a code that will process the data, clean it up, and turn it into a visual star map that shows how stars evolve and cluster by temperature and luminosity.
I am admittedly very rusty with Python and coding in general, and today was spent simply linking up Hackatime with my code and getting the overall setup complete. It took me an embarassingly long amount of time to get this set up properly, but alas, I got it done. I’ve thought about this project for a while, and have a good idea of what I need to get done in my code, so I will work on brushing up on pandas and matplotlib functions tomorrow and begin coding.

Day 1 Log - After finally getting some time after school and work, I was able to work on my project. I ended up having to take a couple days off of actual coding due to family responsibilities, but learned as much as I could about pandas in that time. I spent my free time over the last couple days reviewing pandas functions and overall learning about how pandas takes in and interprets data. I applied what I learned into my code today. I uploaded the raw data from HYG v.44 into my code, and had pandas unzip the file, read it, and plug the data into my csv file. I ran a small test code to ensure everything was uploaded correctly as well. Tomorrow, I will work on having pandas filter out outliers in the data sets I’ve given it. As you can see, it doesn’t seem like much progress was made (and programming wise, it wasn’t), but learning how to write this code correctly took much more time than it seems. Apologies if this Day 2 part of the Devlog doesn’t make much sense; it is getting late and I’m getting a bit tired. I look forward to progressing tomorrow in my project.