Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?
songbird
songbird at anthive.com
Sat Nov 3 12:45:57 EDT 2018
Rhodri James wrote:
...
> I completely agree. I too have come from a background in C, and still
> do most of my day job in C or assembler. It took a while before I was
> writing idiomatic Python, never mind efficient Python (arguably I still
> don't, but as Rob says, who cares?). Don't worry about it; at some
> point you will discover that the "obvious" Python you are writing looks
> a lot like the code you are looking at now and thinking "that's really
> clever, I'll never be able to to that."
at this stage of my own process in learning, i'm
trying to read the FAQs i can find, any tutorials,
answers to specific questions on stackoverflow on
particular topics to see if i can understand the
issues, etc.
as for my own code, yes, it's horrible at the
moment, but to me working code is always the
final arbitor. i much prefer simple and stepwise
refinement if speed isn't the issue i think clarity
and simplicity is more important.
speed is only more important for large projects
that process a ton of data.
in 3-5yrs i expect to understand more of what
the theory and more conceptual things going on as
i read more of the history and how the language
has developed.
i won't consider myself fluent until i start
"thinking" in it and can visualise the data
structures/objects in my head and such as i
currently do for C.
songbird
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