Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject	Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie
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Op Saturday 9 May 2015 08:10 CEST schreef Michael Welle:

> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>
>> Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 21:03 CEST schreef Peter Otten:
>>
>>>>> Realistically a Python coder with a little experience will have
>>>>> a glance at your code and run away.
>>>>
>>>> Oops, that is not nice to hear. :'-( 
>>>
>>> Sorry, I did not mean to discourage you or insult you, I just
>>> wanted to make it clear that your code is not there yet.
>>
>> You did not. Of-course it is not nice to hear, but if it is true,
>> it is very useful. If there is a lot to be desired, then it is good
>> when someone point this out.
>>
>>
>>>> But can you enlighten me? Then I can learn from it.
> learning a new language looks like an easy job, in most cases. All
> the language's keywords and stuff, you can shuffle that into your
> head in a weekend or so. But what it makes it a hard task is all the
> idioms. It takes a long time to learn them. I like your approach of
> hacking random algorithms, like happynumbers and friends, (everyone
> does it to learn a new language I think) and show them for criticism
> (not everyone does that).

Well in my experience the fastest way to learn something is let people
‘burn you down’. Of-course you need to be able to take it. Also
important: “C'est le ton qui fait la musique”. But no problems here.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

Thread

Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 16:53 +0200
  Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-29 18:27 +0200
    Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 19:12 +0200
      Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-29 21:03 +0200
        Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-04-29 22:47 +0200
          Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-04-30 00:00 +0200
          Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-09 08:10 +0200
            Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-09 10:28 +0200
              Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net> - 2015-05-09 11:43 +0200
      Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-04-29 13:40 -0600

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