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ShanePerreault

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 09:39 AM (#1)

I'm Hooked - Woot!

I've been eager to learn two new languages lately: Ruby and Python. Since I already have a basic understanding of Ruby through Rails, I don't want to dig really deep into Ruby right now. So, I started learning Python. And I have to say, it's fucking amazing. I'm watching video tutorials on the basics of Python on thenewboston.com and I'm picking up the syntax pretty fast. I already wrote a small Command Line Script.

print "Welcome to Our GuestBook"

# People List
people = []

while True:

	person = raw_input('Enter Name: ')
	people.append(person)
	
	if(person == 'exit'):
		break

	for person in people:
		print person

raw_input('Press<enter>')

Point is, I'm excited.

Mo3

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 10:49 AM (#2)

Python is rather easy and straightforward.

Glad to see you hooked!

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 11:13 AM (#3)

What would you say is your main method of learning new languages? Video tutorials like you mentioned?

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ShanePerreault

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 11:36 AM (#4)

Owen, on 05 June 2011 - 11:13 AM, said:

What would you say is your main method of learning new languages? Video tutorials like you mentioned?

Well, it's relatively straightforward if you already have programming experience. Since I already know how to program, how to think logically and arithmetically, it's mainly just learning the syntax of a new language along with learning that languages primitives, which python doesn't have a lot of primitive methods I've learned though. But all in all, I'd say Python is a great language to know and have under your belt.

As for your question about Video tutorials. Whatever has the greatest content and is very direct. I like blog posts if they have everything I need to know, or a video series if it has everything I need to know. Videos however I prefer since I see someone coding and I can hear somebody explain it well. But like I said, the only thing that you really need to learn when starting a new language is syntax and primitives. Which can take a few weeks. Or by real-world experience, I still don't know every PHP primitive because there are just so many.

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Posted 05 June 2011 - 02:30 PM (#5)

ShanePerreault, on 05 June 2011 - 11:36 AM, said:

Thanks for the informative answer, lots of good information. I know a little C++ and dabbled a bit with PHP after and I did certainly recognise some similarities between the two (as you said with the logic and such) even if their syntax and purpose are different.

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