I think that is going to be my new wallpaper.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Martin A. Brown <mar...@linux-ip.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > 10 Pick one favorite specific topic, any topic (XML parsing; Unix > process handling; databases). The topic matters for you. > Learn it deeply. Keep learning it. The topic matters less for > others (unless it is specifically within the computer science > discipline). You have just begun. [0] > > 20 Pick a toolkit (minidom, etree; os, multiprocessing, threading, > subprocess; sqlite, psycopg, sqlalchemy, mysql). Learn why > people solved the problem differently each time. Ask. > > 30 Write a program that does something interesting with this. > Try a different toolkit. What was hard? What was easy? > What could you simply not accomplish? Look at the source code > for the tool you used? Why couldn't you accomplish what you > wanted? > > 40 Read all of the documentation. Read it again. Read papers and > books listed in the documentation footnotes. Read the > documentation again. Realize that all of this is a (fallible) > human endeavor. > > 45 Find other, related mailing lists. Subscribe. Listen. Post. > > 46 Talk to somebody who has solved the problem. How? What tools > did that person use [1]? > > 48 If reference to something that was new or you did not > understand, GOTO 40. > > 50 Write a brand new program to solve the same problem. Examine > what you did differently. Ask somebody to review your code. > > 52 Read your old code. > > 53 Talk to somebody who has solved the problem in his/her own > way, potentially with different tools. [2] > > 59 If MASTERY and BORED, GOTO 10. > > 60 GOTO 20 [3] > > This discipline can be approached in depth-first or breadth-first > traversal pattern. Most people on more technical mailing lists > appreciate the depth-first traversal. > > Time waits for nobody (Oh! I need to go eat!), > > -Martin > > [0] For these purposes, mine was IP networking. > [1] What!?! Not Python?! Why? There are reasons to choose > something else. Do not be blind to those resaons. > [2] Find people who are motivated as you are and are working on > similar problems. Work for them. Keep reading. Hire them. > Keep writing. Keep reading. > [3] Oops. I learned on BASIC. I hope I do not get banned from > the list. > > -- > Martin A. Brown > http://linux-ip.net/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
