[CoLoCo] Noob programing, Python and me (and you too)

[David Overcash]

I'm not a fan of python personally, but I've heard great things.  All of
that said, whatever you do, stick with a scripting language before anything
else (Perl, Python, Ruby, Etc) so that you don't have to deal with learning
about compilers, etc.  After that you should move on C - it's definitely the
basis for learning all/most languages and going from there is ideal.

-David

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Sean Dial <tesseractheart at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys
> >    I'm interested in learning to program. I'm a fan of open source. I've
> > never programed in my life. And I'm just doing this for fun and
> experience.
> > Knowing all this, a friend of mine suggested I start with Python. Does
> > anyone have any advice on where to begin?
>
> Yes. Try Ruby instead - very clean syntax and sensible object coding.
> I've programmed in a dozen or more languages for 40 years, and there
> are still some common Python functions that even I can't grok.
>
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