Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

[Alister]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:12:03 -0700, Rob Gaddi wrote:

> On 10/11/2018 11:29 PM, Kaan Taze wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Since this is my first post to mail-list I'm kind of hesitant to ask
>> this question here but as many of you spend years working with Python
>> maybe some of you can guide me.
>> 
>> What I trouble with is not a logical error that exist on a program I
>> wrote.
>> It's the Python itself. Well, I'm 22 years old CS student -from Turkey-
>> and what they showed us at university was C Language and Java but I
>> mainly use C in school projects etc. So it's been few months that I
>> started to use Python for my personal side-projects. There are lots of
>> resources to learn language. I do what I need to do with Python too but
>> I was kinda shocked when I solve Python questions at Hackerrank. Even
>> with list comprehensions you can implement in very smart way to get
>> things done and easy. Iterations, string operations. The codes I see on
>> the Internet using basics in a very clever way which I couldn't come up
>> with the same solution if I tried to for some time. I do understand
>> this ways but coming from ANSI C makes it hard to see this flexibility.
>> I probably do things in a both inefficient and hard way in my projects.
>> 
>> How do I get used to this? Is this just another "practice, practice,
>> practice" situation? Anything you can recommend?
>> 
>> 
>> All the best.
>> 
>> Kaan.
>> 
>> 
> A) Yes, it's practice practice practice.
> 
> B) Don't get hung up on finding the clever solution.  Comprehensions and
> generators and lots of other things are great under some circumstances
> for making the code clearer and easier to read, but they too can become
> the hammer that makes everything look like a nail.  The most important
> thing is that your code is logical, clean, and easy to understand.  If
> it doesn't take full advantage of the language features, or if the
> performance isn't optimized to within an inch of its life, well so be
> it.

To re-enforce this someone much wiser than me wrote (& I a paraphrasing a 
bit)

It takes more skill to debug code than to write it so if you write code 
at the limits of your ability yo do not have the skills needed to debug 
it.

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid



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