A newbie's doubt

[Aaron Christensen]

That's an awesome response!
On Jan 7, 2016 6:35 AM, "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Henrique Correa <habyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is Python's Tutorial (by Guido) a good and complete reference for the
> > language? I mean, after reading it, should I have a good basis on Python?
> >
> > I've came from js and php, and already know the very basics of py.
> >
> > Thank you!
>
> If by "good and complete" you mean "enough to write code in", then
> yes, I would say it is.
>
> If you mean "enough to write applications that you can sell for
> money", then it's probably insufficient; you'll want to also learn a
> few libraries, possibly including third-party ones like Flask/Django
> (to write web applications) or numpy/pandas (to write computational
> code) or matplotlib (to crunch numbers and make graphs).
>
> If, on the other hand, you mean "enough to understand how Python works
> internally", then no, it's not. It's not meant to go into that kind of
> detail. But you don't need to know that anyway.
>
> I would recommend going through that tutorial. You'll get a decent
> handle on how Python works. As a general rule, Python's object model
> is similar to what you'll know from JS; the scoping rules are
> different (instead of "var x;" to declare that x is local, you would
> have "global x" to declare that x is global - but you need declare
> only those globals that you assign to, not those you reference). As
> you go through it, write down some notes of everything that interests
> or confuses you; once you've completed the tutorial, go through your
> notes again. Some of what you've written down will now make perfect
> sense, and you can delete it; some will still confuse you, but you'll
> understand more of *why* it confuses you. So then you come back here
> to python-list with the bits that confuse you, and we'll be happy to
> explain stuff!
>
> ChrisA
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