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: 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: References: Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:55:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Python programming From: Larry Martell To: "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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: 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 On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:21 PM, ngangsia akumbo 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.