[Tutor] Shelve del not reducing file size

[Barton David]

Eric Brunson wrote:

> It seems like new programmers today expect to be spoonfed their 
> information like they were in grammar school.  They don't know what it 
> is to hack a Makefile to get a package to compile or break out an RFC to 
> understand a protocol.  If you don't understand something and the 
> documentation is lacking, then strap on a pair and read the source, 
> write some test cases, dig a little.  In our environment most of the 
> code you'd have to read is just more Python, anyway.
> 
> Just me being a grouchy old programmer.  In my day we had to program in 
> 4 feet of snow, uphill... both ways!


heh. Well give me some credit. I taught myself to program, from scratch, without access to (or time for) any courses whatsoever, while doing a PhD in genetics. I've been using it for about 5 years now and I know the core language and certain standard modules pretty well. I doubt I would have got as far as I have if Python wasn't so newbie-friendly. My only complaint is that I'm starting to feel like I won't get much further than that without a computer science degree.

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