Current Events > so i am learning phyton

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I can make a circle with turtle now.

Thats actually pretty cool. Figuring out how to do something feels like playing a very open ended puzzle. The video i watched taught me basic phyton movement and make a square, then i treid messing with it and figure out how to make a circle.
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Yeah, I loved that. I took the Code Academy course and bought some books on 'hacking' with Python. I feel like I need a step between the books and the intro course, because I was feeling pretty lost.

phyton
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I named my turtle my_penis and tried to draw a penis with it. Lololol
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whee i am learning strings, varaibles, and function now. it's pretty fun!
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Are you reading How to Think Like a Computer Scientist? IIRC, they introduce some Turtle library for doing drawing like that. Good book for self-taught beginners as well.
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Look forward to Advent of Code!
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Sinroth posted...

Are you reading How to Think Like a Computer Scientist? IIRC, they introduce some Turtle library for doing drawing like that. Good book for self-taught beginners as well.

i am using this:
https://cleverprogrammer.teachable.com

since the phyton course is free, and so far he does a good job explaining stuff to a noob. there is also sites and blogs that he recommend that contain useful informations.

i would look for books later too when i think i get basics covered
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anyway how much programming language have in common. let's say i got my phyton covered and feelin confident, but i suddenly have urges to learn java or C, would i basically learn from 0 or there are basic things that overlap?
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apolloooo posted...

anyway how much programming language have in common. let's say i got my phyton covered and feelin confident, but i suddenly have urges to learn java or C, would i basically learn from 0 or there are basic things that overlap?

Python is easier in terms of syntax, but the basic principles are similar and you'd have a much easier time understanding everything.

apolloooo posted...

anyway how much programming language have in common. let's say i got my phyton covered and feelin confident, but i suddenly have urges to learn java or C, would i basically learn from 0 or there are basic things that overlap?

Meh, those languages are appreciably different. You'd probably pick up the syntax a lot faster than if you were learning from 0, and they have the same constructs, but there are just extra things that are different from Python. IT would still take years and projects before you could claim advanced expertise in that language, and it will still probably take a decent investment to learn the basics of them.

But if you, say, knew those three languages comfortably, there's probably like a 75% chance you could pick up the basics of any other random language within a week (assuming it's not something substantially different, like a functional or logic programming language)
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i know a fair bit of web development, i know a fair bit of c++ "uni dev" (as in for assignments, nothing real-world other than fundamentals)

i kinda wanna just go through a python course and learn cool stuff. dunno if i'll ever need anything other than shell scripting and web dev though
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