On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > As a newbie don't worry about it (yet). Personally I think it's plain daft > to put such advanced language topics on a tutor mailing list.
Different strokes for different folks. I like to tinker with and disassemble things as I'm learning about them. I would have been ecstatic about open source as a kid. I learn simultaneously from the top down and bottom up -- outside to inside and inside to outside. I need an abstract overview (a map) combined with a concrete realization. Tell me and show me -- and let me tinker and experiment. If learning isn't fun, I'm not learning. The Python language reference, while being far more accessible than an ISO standard or technical report, is still an abstract, highly verbal specification. I understand it, but I don't truly 'grok' a lot of things until I see how it's implemented in bytecode, or even down to the C source level. Putting the two together, I meet in the middle with a better understanding of how it works. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
