[Tutor] Did you learn to program with Python???
McCarney, James Alexander
James.Alexander.McCarney@Cognicase.com
Fri Oct 25 15:24:02 2002
Hey, a question I can handle!
> >>Are there any people on this mailing list for whom Python
> >>was the first programming language, or perhaps even better,
> >>not the first they tried, but the first that worked? :)
Yes to that--the first that worked the way I wanted it to, anyway.
> >>How did you learn Python?
The tuts, particularly Alan's; the O'Reilly book--but it's a trifle tough
sledding if you don't know why to use the different kinds of collections;
puzzling through the code; asking questions of the tut list.
> >>
> >>What resource was most helpful?
The tut list.
> >>Something else?
Lots of chocolate and Coca-Cola ;-)