Re: Newbie Here

The impression for me for python is that it can be scalable and you can
really build a full fledge application from it. In the past I used to
evangelized on certain language and think that the world is full of
philips screws that I can use my philips screwdriver to screw at. I was
totally wrong. But generally I think if you are looking at web
scripting, PHP is simple to learn and fast to execute; if you want to
automate and parse data on the fly, Perl is no doubt; and if you want
to build application and not in particular in execution speed, Python
is the way to go. I considered myself as a newbie too as I always
trying to learn a thing or two, here and there.

The way I learn to program usually I would get one of those open source
application written in whatever language I wish to learn and I would
study it from ground zero. I would try to understand the programmer
style and also try to understand his logic and why he want to do this
or that. You may think its crazy but I kinda like to pretend I am a
detective trying to solve a case. When you have the right attitude and
fun, you will pick up fast. This way you will basically learn
everything. Books are good but just don't get sucked into everything. I
discovered that in real programming life, 80% of what you apply comes
from the 20% of the knowledge you've learn. Just my n cents worth.

Pardon my political incorrect grammar if any, as I am not a native
english speaker.


Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm taking the plunge into Python. I'm currently following this tutorial,
> http://docs.python.org/tut/
> I am not a programmer in general, although I've learnt a bit of bash
> scripting and some php/asp. I want to get into python to use it for
> Linux/Unix related stuff. A question I have, is, those of you who use it
> for the same things, what do you primarily use it for. Could you show me
> some examples.? I find the hardest thing with programming, is not
> remember the syntax/logic etc, but, when to use it. Perhaps that is also
> a personal thing, but, I'd love to see some basic examples out there.
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Sargent.

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