21st October 2019

Today the lecture was cancelled due to the tutor being ill. Due to this I instead spent my day working on the networking exercise. I used "Async.io" which is a package in python that can be used to avoid threading, instead of producing threads to handle multiple processes'. I managed to get this working but the problem was that if I scaled the number of users in the program, the process's are a lot harsher on the computer than a thread (10,000 processes' is going to be difficult for most computers but 10,000 threads is a breeze). I used this as a model for further research, seeing how far I could push it but sadly this took the vast majority of the day. Later into the night, I got through half the book "Money: a users guide". This book is a short detail of everything from taxation, starting a business to pension and managing money to buying stocks and investment. So far this has been incredibly helpful as I have cleared up the majority of the confusion I sustained around repayment of student loan and even how I was going to get on the property ladder in later life.