[Edu-sig] RE: Learning Python

[Stephen R. Figgins]

Gerrit writes:

>A few years later, I discovered Linux, the shell, started using Perl
>but couldn't understand a single bit, started reading "Programming Python"
>(my father, an experienced programming and Unix guru, bought it),
>(Learning Python wasn't there yet) but found it very difficult too;
>after half a year, I did understand Programming Python but did not
>understand OO yet; I bought Learning Python and got the concept of classes.

So mostly you learned through continued exposure and not giving up?

I actually think that is how a lot of hackers learn to program.  Mix
them together with the right elements, shake vigorously, and
eventually they get it.  Though a lot of people don't last, never get
it, never become hackers.  It seems a really like an inefficient way
to go about it.

Stephen