time to invest ???

[Sheila King]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:52:23 -0800, "Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote
in comp.lang.python in article <99jfmh$1i58c$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de>:

:Pick a simple admin task, something you do regularly and feel you
:understand, work the tutorial, and then implement in python.
:
:Two ideal days.  If it takes a week, you've started with too big a project.
:Stop at two days and ask for help/clarification.

I would agree with the "two days" figure, if he already had some previous
programming experience. But as he says, "little as a programmer", it will
probably take longer, since he is learning programming at the same time.

Still, your advice to ask for help after two days is good advice.

I have (some) programming experience, and started with a task I wanted to do,
and it took me a few days, after having already spent a couple of days looking
through the tutorial and so forth.

--
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org/

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:"Yvon Boulianne" <mysticsguy at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
:news:3abd3a17.7103358 at news.vif.com...
:> Hello, i start to learn Python some day ago, with lot of knowledge as
:> a system admin but little as programmer and i wonder what is the
:> average time/hours someone have to invest to be able to use a language
:> like that easily.  i talk as well about devlopping the way of thinking
:> of a programmer and the knowledge of the language. please don't tell
:> me theres no average, at least take the idea of a normal guy, not a
:> genius and not stupid  ;-)
:>
:> Thanks verry much and sorry for my english, my first language is
:> french.
:>
:> Yvon Boulianne ; Saphi
:> mysticsguy at yahoo.ca
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