From: ivanlan at callware.com (Ivan Van Laningham)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:51:21 GMT
Subject: What is it ? How can I learn it ? Where should I start ? What can 
 you do with it ?
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Pythonistas--

"Alexander M. Dietrich" wrote:
> 
> I just heard about it, it's required for a job I will eventually apply to.
> I have C programming experience . Is that a plus ?

Welcome aboard, Alexander.

> What is it?

The coolest programming language on the planet.

> How can I learn it? 

Buy _Learning Python_ by Mark Lutz & David Ascher, O'Reilly Press.  Bug
us.  This list is actually civilized.  No newbies have been harmed
beyond repair in the last year or so, and most of the real cannibals
have been muzzled (Gordon excepted, so don't put any parts of you
through his cage bars that you want to keep). ...

> Where should I start?

Here.  http://www.python.org  (You can order the books from here, too) 
There's also a Python-tutor mailing list you might want to consider
joining.

> What can you do with it?

Anything.  The weirder the better.  Check out the previous conference
pages at www.python.org; paper topics are, shall we say, all over the
map.  About the only area where Python doesn't shine is competing with
Perl on regular expressions.  It can do the same stuff, just not as
fast.

Python is fun, easy, and entertaining.  And, it's educational.

<the-most-important-skill-you-need-right-now-is-learning-how-to-read-sigs-like-this>-ly
y'rs,
Ivan

PS:  And just *where* is this job that (I should be so lucky) *REQUIRES*
you to know Python????????  Why aren't they calling ME????
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See also: 
http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
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