Hey, I'm new to python so don't judge.

Erik python at lucidity.plus.com
Tue Jan 3 23:22:59 EST 2017


On 04/01/17 03:25, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2017 12:25, Callum Robinson wrote:
>
>> Hey man thanks, the sad thing is i have no idea why i put that in. I must be
>> having a terrible day.
>
> Don't worry about it. The difference between a beginner and an expert is *not*
> that experts make fewer mistakes, but that experts know how to fix those
> mistakes so quickly that they don't even notice them.

Hmm. An expert at what? Telling a beginner how to spell something is not 
the same as coaxing that same beginner to think about something or 
approach a problem from a particular angle and come to their own 
solution. We all could have told him the answer up-front. What has that 
achieved?

E.



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