[Chicago] Teaching Java people Python.

[Allan LeSage]

Concerning Java smells, this Stop Writing Classes
<http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2012/stop-writing-classes.html> talk really
emphasizes the clarity and simplicity of Python for devs who come from more
verbose langs.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta <tathagatadg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think Jason is talking about people who write Python that smell
> (terribly) of Java (version < 8).
> We happen to know quite a few who do this ;)
> Other than Raymond Hettinger's famous pycon 2013 talk
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go>, this
> <http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html> article, what
> would you recommend?
> I think talking to some of these seasoned Java developers in the language
> of design patterns could work.
> Alex Martelli's talk <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJJlVBVTFg> on
> Python design patterns.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:29 PM Jordan Bettis <jordanb at hafd.org> wrote:
>
>> The tutorial on python.org is a reasonably good intro and it doesn't
>> waste a lot of time trying to explain what an if statement is:
>>
>> https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#if-statements
>>
>> Python has an interactive shell but I'd recommend installing ipython if
>> you want to use it to work through the examples.
>>
>>
>> On 12/01/2016 06:14 PM, Jason Wirth wrote:
>>
>> Say a hard-core Java programmer wants to learn Python. Is there a
>> specific go-to resource that addresses the differences without wasting time
>> on basic programming concepts.
>>
>>
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