On 09/28/2017 04:15 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
With Python, I'd say that an appreciation of the available libraries is key - both what's in the stdlib, and what's available from PyPI. That's not to say you should memorise the standard library, but rather cultivate an approach of "hmm, I'm pretty sure I remember there being a library for that" and going to look. The best way of getting this is to actually work with code - you can start with doing coding projects of your own (it's *always* a good exercise to have a problem that interests you, and work on coding it - no matter what it is, you'll learn more about understanding requirements, testing, bug fixing, and practical programming by working on a project you care about than you'll ever get reading books) and/or you can look at existing open source projects that you're interested in, and offer help (there's always a bug tracker, and typically some simpler items - and you'll learn a lot from interacting with a larger project).
When I first started in Unix/Linux there was a group called SAGE. They had a list of tasks a system admin was expected to be able to do and they sorted the list by "Junior", "Senior", or somesuch. I started at the bottom of the list and worked my way up.
One useful thing was to make a sorted list of commands in /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin, and then read the first bit of the man page that showed what the command did. Fun stuff.
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