Want to learn a language - is Python right?

[James Stroud]

Python will help you as a novice for these reasons:

1. Help you to learn programming concepts and develop good habits.
2. Powerful Standard Library to help you do more advanced things.
3. Smooth, shallow learning curve, e.g. hello world is:

         print "Hello World"

   So you can do simple things in python with minimal learning.

4. Excellent, friendly, patient, helpful user base.
5. Code is inherently more maintainable than other languages.
6. comp.lang.python

In short, you have come to the right place. I have used many programming 
languages (C, Java, Fortran, Python, Perl, just to name the more famous ones) 
and python takes the cake as a general purpose programming language.

By the way, ignore any posts talking about speed of execution. This is 
generally a non-issue for new programmers. If you want your code to run 
faster, buy a faster computer.

James

On Monday 20 June 2005 07:47 am, Aziz McTang wrote:
> What I'm looking for is more to learn one good, comprehensive
> programming language well than several approximately on an ad hoc
> basis. What I also failed to mention is the desire to develop my
> presently limited computer skills a lot further.

-- 
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/