On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Pratik Joshi<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm a newbie in IronPython. I've got an interest to learn and work in > IronPython. > > Can anyone suggest me about the scope in IronPython and developing career in > it? > > I'm a software engineer and have 3 years of professional experience in .NET. > So how would it be for me to put my shoes in IronPython? > > Thanks > Pratik. > > ________________________________ > Are you an untamed, bizarre or daring explorer? Find out now! Drag n' drop > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > Python isn't that hard to learn, at least not the basics. The tutorial on the python.org website is a good place to start. The IronPython downloads are free. It's reall a matter of installing the interpreter and starting to test things.
I you're a dot Net developer, you can prototype things more quickly and easily and interactively with IronPython. Most of the common dot Net libraries work with the IronPython implementation. Now, for your real question - jobs/career. I surf the job boards pretty frequently just to see what's going on and how people are using Python. I've seen at least one job posted a number of months back in New York City in the financial sector. It referred to a third party app with a Python API. I assumed (perhaps falsely) that the app was the Resolver spreadsheet, because the company that makes it does target the stock market sector. I believe you can still download the base Resolver product for free for non-commercial use (basically to learn it). The short on learning IronPython or IronRuby or any other dynamic language is that you're really learning the language, not just the dot Net implementation of it. IronPython gets more and more consistent with the main Python implementation (CPython) with each release. Even now, Python programmers are still hard to come by. My one boss referred to them as being "so darn hard to find." So, IronPython or jython or PyPy or just plain Python - it's not a bad skill to have. My two cents. Hope this helps. Carl T. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
