[Tutor] Recommendation For A Complete Noob

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Wed Feb 12 11:06:23 CET 2014


On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 23:25 +0000, Bob Williams wrote:
[…]
> I'm also a noob. In addition to all the excellent recommendations
> already posted, I would suggest setting yourself a task to solve in
> python. It's far more interesting than working through the examples in
> most books - the challenge is solving each problem as you come across
> them. Google is excellent.

Definitely. What you also need is to get feedback on your code from
another person. Knowing whether your solution is good, Pythonic, or
needs more work, is separate from does it pass its tests and does it do
what it should.

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