request for guidance

[rusi]

On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:41:09 AM UTC+5:30, David Hutto wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean reinventing the wheel is a bad thing, just that once you get the hang of things, you need to display some creativity in your work to set yourself apart from the rest.
> Nowadays, everyone's a programmer.
> If it weren't for reinventing the wheel, then we wouldn't have abs(antilock breaking systems), or new materials, or different treading for water displacement or hydroplaning. 
> The point was just to try something in python, and to 'boldly go where no 'man' has gone before'.
> Just to remind her that it's not just about python, but what you can accomplish with it, and distinguish yourself from others.

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, David Hutto <dwight... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In my opinion, a novice always tries to reinvent the wheel. Take for example
> > a simple text editor.

> Which isn't a bad thing. Especially in that particular case, it's good
> to try your hand at writing a text editor - most of the hard
> grunt-work is done for you (just plop down an edit control - in some
> toolkits you can even deploy a control with full source code
> highlighting), so you can focus on figuring out what it is that makes
> yours different. And then you'll appreciate other editors more :) But
> along the way, you'll learn so much about what feels right and what
> feels wrong. And maybe you can incorporate some of your own special
> unique features into whatever editor you end up using... quite a few
> are scriptable.


For the young-n-enthu "Make haste slowly!" is usually good advice