On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Jeremiah Stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello everybody: > > I am new to this mailing list, and it said that i could the simplest of > questions. So i was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to e-mail me a > project idea or something to go out an learn to do in python. I don't know > any languages, but i am definitely not computer illiterate. i have read so > many tutorial about getting started but so far that is where the tutorial > have left me ( how to print "Hello World") and such. > > Any ideas great thanks. > > First of all, I mean no offense to the OP. However, this question comes up a lot on this list, and it always bugs me. People decide they want to learn Python, and then ask strangers to give them a reason to do it. I may be totally wrong about this, but it doesn't seem like a good way to learn _anything_, let alone a programming language. The most important element for success is enthusiasm, and how can you generate any enthusiasm working on somebody else's homework project? Unless you learn best under external discipline, in which case I suggest you take a class... My advice to all potential Pythonistas who want to learn on their own: think of a problem you need to solve, or a cool game you've wanted to implement, or a tool you want but don't have. In my own case, I had a project I needed to do (printing mailing labels from records in an old proprietary database) that was going to suck if I used only the tools I already had. I'd been wanting to get into Python, and I decided to use Python to do the job and learn as I went. It was WONDERFUL, and I've been in love with Python ever since. (Yes, I've used it for fun stuff since then, but my first experience was of Python saving me hours and hours of pain.) If you don't have a professional task that you could apply Python to, just look around your environment for a day or so looking for problems to solve. (My favorite example of this, although it's a very silly program and written in JavaScript besides, is Roast Beef's "Eggs and Milk Minder" from Achewood<http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05082002>.) Just my €0.0075... -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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