[Tutor] is it a right choice?

[lonetwin]

Hi Payal,
      
On Thursday 03 Jul 2003 8:50 am, Todd Stephens wrote:
> Forgot to CC this to the list:
[ ... ]
> You can also buy it in hardcopy at your favorite online book seller.  It is
> also available in Java and (I think) C versions, but neither one of those
> is really as suited to your purpose as Python is.

        Just want to add to whatever Todd said. What I personally appreciate 
about Python is that it is a 'general purpose' language. You can hack up a 
quick and dirty script that 'does-the-job' as easily as a full blown 
application.

        However, one thing you ought to remember. Try and grok the concepts 
that you are introduced to instead of *how* those are implemented in the 
language, because those transcend the language that you choose to code in.

        Just like any *nix, once you know what the '-rwxr-xr-x' mean, you know 
about file permissions irrespective of what flavor of *nix you choose to use.

       A tip - one of the more effective ways to learn a new language (at 
least for me) is to tinker around with some existing code written by someone 
else. Fortunately for Python, there is a place where even newbies can find 
something that is simple enough to tinker around with (like the "Hello world 
!" program). I'm speaking of Useless Python

      http://www.uselesspython.com/
        This is maintained my a group of volunteers from this list.
You will also find links to other demo/example pages on the "Source links" 
page.

Hope this gives you a itch to write at least one script worthy to be called 
Useless. :)

Happy hacking
Peace
Steve
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printk("Penguin %d is stuck in the bottle.\n", i);
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