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From: ivanlan at callware.com (Ivan Van Laningham)
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:51:21 GMT
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Subject: What is it ? How can I learn it ? Where should I start ? What can
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you do with it ?
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References: <J3KT2.41501$_k1.32399@news.chello.at>
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Message-ID: <371F7DB9.E7E48A82@callware.com>
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Pythonistas--
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"Alexander M. Dietrich" wrote:
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>
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> I just heard about it, it's required for a job I will eventually apply to.
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> I have C programming experience . Is that a plus ?
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Welcome aboard, Alexander.
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> What is it?
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The coolest programming language on the planet.
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> How can I learn it?
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Buy _Learning Python_ by Mark Lutz & David Ascher, O'Reilly Press. Bug
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us. This list is actually civilized. No newbies have been harmed
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beyond repair in the last year or so, and most of the real cannibals
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have been muzzled (Gordon excepted, so don't put any parts of you
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through his cage bars that you want to keep). ...
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> Where should I start?
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Here. http://www.python.org (You can order the books from here, too)
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There's also a Python-tutor mailing list you might want to consider
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joining.
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> What can you do with it?
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Anything. The weirder the better. Check out the previous conference
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pages at www.python.org; paper topics are, shall we say, all over the
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map. About the only area where Python doesn't shine is competing with
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Perl on regular expressions. It can do the same stuff, just not as
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fast.
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Python is fun, easy, and entertaining. And, it's educational.
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<the-most-important-skill-you-need-right-now-is-learning-how-to-read-sigs-like-this>-ly
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y'rs,
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Ivan
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PS: And just *where* is this job that (I should be so lucky) *REQUIRES*
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you to know Python???????? Why aren't they calling ME????
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----------------------------------------------
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Ivan Van Laningham
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Callware Technologies, Inc.
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ivanlan at callware.com
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http://www.pauahtun.org
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See also:
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http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html
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Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70
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