Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #66035

Re: Python programming

Path csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path <larry.martell@gmail.com>
X-Original-To python-list@python.org
Delivered-To python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status OK 0.004
X-Spam-Evidence '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'c++,': 0.07; 'javascript,': 0.07; 'perl,': 0.07; 'php.': 0.07; 'jquery,': 0.09; 'sql,': 0.09; 'language,': 0.12; 'wrote': 0.14; '110': 0.16; 'crude': 0.16; 'engineering.': 0.16; 'rochester': 0.16; 'silly': 0.16; 'stops.': 0.16; 'subject:programming': 0.16; 'tape': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'feb': 0.22; 'shell': 0.22; 'to:name:python-list@python.org': 0.22; 'hours,': 0.24; 'of.': 0.24; 'math': 0.24; 'question': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'went': 0.31; '(my': 0.31; 'css.': 0.31; 'class': 0.32; 'could': 0.34; 'basic': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'html,': 0.36; 'ibm': 0.36; 'programming,': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'entire': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'myself': 0.63; 'college': 0.70; 'institute': 0.72; 'connection.': 0.74; 'paper': 0.75; 'life.': 0.83; '360': 0.84; 'me).': 0.84; 'yellow': 0.84; 'skiing': 0.91; 'taught': 0.96
DKIM-Signature v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=xkCq2U0mZwrCzqLOf9aaMRfXiizDpWxzCCBrNA5pArA=; b=DrTibBP3UXaH1TUTUXFNXsCml3nJHevBPl1ZXkTrXX8MYX8NFwqycIDxgQcwcpQf0I y53RJFLy/mT+lIDab6as7+YRs7EiZb79hfSON0wvBxhAkBRzIzN6bChiiJIAFkM+FL4T bUop413DOikDEFnX+KQGk8oWGSB7Nx31Rcg9zb6+hVFmqi6ZdHC7N37n23JiXmZNESjO c+qcdnliUoeB5r0cJ3lmYtb5Ia8XU2Qo1nHmAz5nQzHgcqUIK4Z+su1GrtUuluFDAoxV CWadP6L6zXF+Q70Gkc4cnw/+dAyTeJQP5yCzHgmxnoI+iCLbkdmMT8261R+5M+FaEyYQ FmJw==
MIME-Version 1.0
X-Received by 10.194.92.199 with SMTP id co7mr29907864wjb.14.1392213331083; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 05:55:31 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To <b2db52b0-d7f7-43dd-9ddf-86feb109ebc8@googlegroups.com>
References <b2db52b0-d7f7-43dd-9ddf-86feb109ebc8@googlegroups.com>
Date Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:55:30 -0500
Subject Re: Python programming
From Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
To "python-list@python.org" <python-list@python.org>
Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-BeenThere python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version 2.1.15
Precedence list
List-Id General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.6757.1392213333.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
Lines 18
NNTP-Posting-Host 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace 1392213333 news.xs4all.nl 2909 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:42225
X-Complaints-To abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref csiph.com comp.lang.python:66035

Show key headers only | View raw

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:21 PM, ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please i have a silly question to ask.
>
> How long did it take you to learn how to write programs?

My entire life.

I started in 1975 when I was 16 - taught myself BASIC and wrote a very
crude downhill skiing game. I had dial in access to the mainframe at a
local college (my HS math teacher got that for me). I could only
access it off hours, so I wrote my program to yellow paper tape then
uploaded it over a 110 baud connection. Then taught myself FORTRAN,
then went to college at Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in
Computer Engineering. First class was Pascal, then FORTRAN, which I
tested out of. Then IBM 360 assembly language, then C. After college I
taught myself SQL, shell programming, perl, C++, python, and PHP. And
in just the last 2 years javascript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS. It never
stops.

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 16:21 -0800
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 12:17 +1100
  Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-11 21:06 -0500
  Re: Python programming Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 18:46 -0800
  Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-11 22:02 -0500
    Re: Python programming Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2014-02-11 23:14 -0500
    Re: Python programming Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 13:41 +0000
    Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:00 -0500
      Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 02:57 +0000
        Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 22:04 -0500
          Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 14:13 +1100
            Re: Python programming Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-13 15:13 +0000
          Re: Python programming William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-02-12 22:56 -0500
            Re: Python programming Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-13 05:18 +0000
          Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 03:30 -0500
  Re: Python programming Asdrúbal Iván Suárez <asdrubalivan.listas@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 20:01 -0430
  Re: Python programming Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-12 15:09 +1100
  Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 08:55 -0500
    Re: Python programming Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-12 09:13 -0500
      Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 11:43 -0500
      Re: Python programming Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-12 21:13 -0500
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:02 +1100
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:34 +1100
  Re: Python programming Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 09:57 +1100
  Re: Python programming Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 15:30 +0000
    Re: Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 12:29 -0800

csiph-web