jbchua wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I am an Electrical Engineering major and have dabbled in several > languages such as Python, C, and Java in my spare time because of my > interest in programming. However, I have not done any practical > programming because I have no idea where to get started. I taught > myself these languages basically by e-tutorials and books. This makes > me feel as if I don't really know how to implement these languages. > Does anybody have any advice on where to start applying my limited > knowledge practically in order to advance my learning?
I am just starting to learn to program as well. (In my spare time.) The advice about deciding on a goal, a project to work on, is good. I have just got through the basics section in this guide here (http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/), which I found very useful for beginners and the address book example you build up shows the python in practice. Once I had learnt about file inp/out I decided to make a program that would split a file in half for email and then could be used to join them together again. This helped me get used to most of what I had learnt in the beginner section. Also don't forget the Python.org documentation it's very helpful and is a great companion to most the 3rd party tutorials around. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
