<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><span class="HcCDpe"><br>A suggestion for python books with a touch of philosophy.<br><br>Wished authors could use analogies from spreadsheet applications (that crunch data just like computers crunch data using programming languages ) or opensource programs when explaining stuff like datastructures, variables, functions, methods, Object orientation, GUI... It could acheive two things, give an intro into how spreadsheets work for those who do not know spreadsheets (probably good for kids to learn about spreadsheets) and will help a python enthusiast/newbie visualize programming concepts like functions, methods, datastructures, decorators, generators... It doesn't make someone, especially kids or people with no programming background much sense to learn from any programming language that a function foo can return "bar" or foo.foobar() returns void.<br>
<br>When I stumbled into python, I was also learning 3D. One of the functions in the program I was using was object instancing. ie make a sphere, create instances of it, modify the source sphere and the changes are reflected on the instances. I think newbies will find it easier to grasp keywords like "instantiation" easier to understand if shown something like this in a software application. I used such analogies to teach my nephew who in school has to learn an object oriented programming language. <br>
<br>If OpenOffice and Blender (May be not blender cos not everyone wants to learn 3D animation) are opensource programs we can use the concepts they use to build such applications and explain them in a pythonic way rather than newcomers learning the raw language using the analogies of "foobar" and then trying to make sense of "foobar" in resolve programming problems in daily life. <br>
<br>Good to see in python we have lots of beginner tutorials @ <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers">http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers</a> . But was wondering if some one who is new to programming have to go through each tutorial explanation of a concept through different tutorials at different locations? Wished a wiki-/pedia could aggregate explanations of each concept in python in one location and python enthusiasts from different verses of life could contribute their own explanations for the topic. So a topic on functions could have it explained the python way, the foobar way, a bioinformatics way or a weatherman's way.... all in one location.<br>
<br><Philosoph-Y><br>The spirit of Opensource is to share the knowledge for a common goal? Sincerely admire the openSource community of a colony of Bacteria and for that matter any openSource community. An experience by one is shared by the rest of the colony so that future generations are smarter than their parents. The experience is shared in a format easily understandable for the rest of the colony. Given that fact, us in Medicine can never cure Cancer or Infections because them cells are smarter than us. They share their knowledge to kill us, We don't share our knowledge to kill them. We share knowledge in only hierarchies designed by aggregating, segregating and congregating individuals. And our knowledge formats take half of our life time to learn the language.<br>
<br>Not sure what gets lost when we become independent multicellular individuals that such individuals hesitate to share their knowledge with other individuals of a colony (society, nation or species) !<br><br><br></span></div>