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Tastes Like Chicken?
by scmrak | May 13 '05
Pros: Substantially larger than the first edition; everything but the kitchen sink in one spot
Cons: Just about everything's already collected in another spot, so nothing new.
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Re: Re: Re: ... (Reply to this comment)
by scmrak,  in Books
a = 'Any'
b = 'time'
c = 'Caroline'
print a+' '+b+',', c
print '\n'
print '-30-', '\n'
print 'rex'
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May 16 '05
7:25 am PDT
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Re: Re: ... (Reply to this comment)
by dizzybint
Thanks! If I ever take the plunge, I'll bug you when I'm confused. (Ha... like I'm not already.)
C
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May 15 '05
7:44 am PDT
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by scmrak, in Books
Oh, and BTW - Python's Open-Source, so it's free - you can pick up a download of the current version (Python 2.4) and supporting executables plus help files over at www.python.org - and they have links to an online tutorial as well.
R
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May 14 '05
7:12 pm PDT
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Re: ... (Reply to this comment)
by scmrak, in Books
Tough call. They claim that the language is more "natural," but I somehow wonder if "they" can speak normal English.
Seriously, though, it's a fairly easy language to get a toehold in - easier than C or FORTRAN was for me, and I just taught myself from the books and the support documents. One problem that I see is that I couldn't find a good introductory reference text: everything assumes you already know algorithm design and how to program the basic bits like conditional statements and loops.
One book was so bad that it introduced the Object-Oriented Programming concept of an "instance" at the bottom of one page and then was throwing around terms like "instantiation" within three sentences with neither a definition nor a glossary. Heck, I have a fair idea what it means, and I was confused by the rapidity of the introduction.
I'll eventually get around to reviewing the three intro texts I used, but I found all three of them lacking.
Cheers, and thanks for the visit.
R
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May 14 '05
7:10 pm PDT
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by dizzybint
I read somewhere, a while ago, that Python is one of the easier languages to learn, if one is a beginner. If I ever get my other computer going again, I might give it a shot just for fun.
Caroline
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May 14 '05
10:39 am PDT
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