Newbie question: how to get started?

[Robert Bauck Hamar]

ed wrote:

> I should also mention that I know C/C++, Perl, Javascript, the basics
> of mySQL, and HTML/CSS.  If anyone has tried to enter python from these
> angles, I'd be grateful to hear from you.

What's C/C++?

Well, I knew C, C++, Perl, Java, SQL, and HTML before learning Python. And
some more languages. If you really know all these languages, Python should
be a no-brainer, and a practical language in use.

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rbh