[Tutor] What was your strategy?

[Alan Gauld]

"Jorge Biquez" <jbiquez at icsmx.com> wrote

> I was wondering if you can share what was the strategy you followed 
> to master Python

I started with Python 1.3 around early 1998 but switched to 1.5 very
soon after.

I started with the standard tutorial (I was already a pro programmer 
so
it was easy to follow) then implemented some of my Perl and awk tools
in Python for comparison's sake and just to gain some experience.

I then bought a book by Guido which was adequate but not really
well related to the programming things I do. I also bought the 
original
Programming Python O'Reilly book and found it more helpful.
Then around that time I was invited to review Grayson's Tkinter
book - I'm  not sure why, because I was still a Python newbie
and only average on Tcl/Tk... I found Grayson's book more
advanced than the stuff I'd been doing and it pushed me to explore
new areas. I still refer to it regularly.

Then I decided to write a tutorial on learning to program and chose
Python as the preferred language. I also discovered the tutor list
about the same time. The rest is history... or at least the list 
archive :-)

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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/