Cruis.In Posted July 7, 2005 Report Posted July 7, 2005 Just checking see if anyone else in the community is robust with the Python language. I just bought a beginner book and am at page 237. As I am new to programming, it seems to me as though Python is fairly easy to pick up for a newbie to the realm of programming. And the book I have is excellent written by Michael Dawson, "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner", which uses small games to teach you the programming concepts. This way too its rather fun! Each chapter has a set of 4 challenges at the end which challenge you to create a program or small game using the concepts you learned in the chapter, so you can get a grasp in practicals with what you learned in the chapter. The only downfall I see to being self taught rather than doing a degree in computer science is not constantly having assignments to do which utilize some aspect of everything I have learned. So the early chapters fade in comparis to learning OOP, and classes/functions etc... While I think I am moving at a good pace and all... I won't quit my day job just yet. Just a hobby for me for now! so any other Python users out there!
Supreme Cmdr Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 You picked up a book on Python....to learn about programming?
jamotto Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 I think this is the one he has? Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner (Absolute Beginner) (Paperback) Curious to see if Python becomes the future of programming?
Supreme Cmdr Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 quote:Originally posted by jamotto: Curious to see if Python becomes the future of programming? eh? Python has been around for a very - very - long time. Its not and never will be the future of programming. Thats just silly thinking.
jamotto Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Its not and never will be the future of programming. Thats just silly thinking.So out of curiosity what language do you think is the "future" of programming?
jamotto Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 lol, that is if C# doesn't kill the lang. before then.
Supreme Cmdr Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 quote:Originally posted by jamotto: quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Its not and never will be the future of programming. Thats just silly thinking.So out of curiosity what language do you think is the "future" of programming? There is no such thing. Programmers use whatever language does the job.
Cruis.In Posted July 8, 2005 Author Report Posted July 8, 2005 what did you mean by what you said Derek? in terms of me picking using python to learn programming.
Darkling Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 quote:Originally posted by Cruis.In: what did you mean by what you said Derek? in terms of me picking using python to learn programming. Well most implementations of Python rely on a C Stack, so in essence you're running Python on top of C. However, from what limited understanding I have, Stackless python Doesn't require the C Stack to execute calls, but I'm not sure if Stackless Python requires C anyway.
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