[Novalug] Learning Python ???

Domenick Petrella Sr. domenick.petrella@gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 09:49:19 EDT 2013


I feel the same way, and in some cases, rewriting something I had already done in one language in the target language got me over the hump.  It was something I already knew well, and could see how the same operations were handled in the new environment. 

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Domenick Petrella Sr.


On Friday, March 22, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 07:58:09AM -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> > I know the list every year or three talks about learning a new language or
> > tool as a group.
> > 
> > I have decided I want to learn Python? Has anyone successfully learned
> > Python via self-study and if so, how did you do it?
> > 
> 
> Not Python, but a long time ago C. I found an important aspect for
> me was to come up with an application I wanted to develop and to apply
> things I was learning to the application.
> 
> For example, part of my application had a multi- multi-page if/elif/else
> statement. Of course my self-study showed me "pointers to functions"
> and I could do the simple examples. But I "learned" pointers to functions
> when I created an array of them to replace the multi-page if with a about
> 10 lines of code that were easier to understand and maintain.
> 
> Jon
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