I have some knowledge of the HTML, CSS languages (I know, I know) but I dont know dick about object-oriented ones. Baby's fiwst wanguage.
What's the best way to go about learning Python?
Evan Sanders
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Tyler Butler
Depends on what you want to use it for. If you want webdev, learn JavaScript first, then come back and ask the same question. A good resource that teaches JS, reviews html/CSS AND teaches Python is the free CS50s webdev course by Harvard. You can enroll (free) or just watch their videos/project assignments on the CS50 website (also free) or their jewtube channel. If what you want is data science there's a popular course by IBM called Python for data science or something like that. They're all on edx
Nathaniel Powell
Pick up some book or a course. (google is your friend here) Do what it says.
Grayson Wilson
if i want to build an app for myself to retrieve data and the like would I need to build a UI or could I do it through a terminal. Sorry if retarded question.
Anthony Hughes
You can do anything through the terminal, but sometimes you need a gui for ease of use. I recommend this book greenteapress.com
Jason Peterson
thanks! python 2 or 3?
Noah Rodriguez
3
Caleb Mitchell
Learn a proper language
Owen Collins
2 is antiquated and will hit end of life on 2020-01-01.
Juan Ortiz
Thanks for your thoughtful insight
Caleb Sullivan
>cant compile if you mix tabs and spaces
pytards will defend this
Eli Ward
The best way to learn python is to not. Download MS Visual Studio instead.
Ryan Lee
Dubs of truth.
Jonathan Walker
And then what
Oliver Anderson
learn C#
Leo Walker
Literally just use Google. God damn.
Sebastian Johnson
Jupyter notebooks + docs
Aiden Sanchez
Do not do this, OP.
Austin Watson
Then use the excellent integrated design environment to learn one of its Built-in languages which include C, C++, C++/CLI, Visual Basic .NET, C#, F#, JavaScript, TypeScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, and CSS.
Tyler Harris
Which would you recommend and what materials would you suggest learning it with?
Blake Peterson
If you want to build computer applications then Visual Basic. If you want to program video games then c, c++. If you want to code websites then javascript, and html, and I do not know what xml and css are for though they are Web standards. What materials? Um, a personal computer and a monitor and a mouse and keyboard. And then enrol on a programming course at your local education centre.
Nicholas Ramirez
And then you're going to need a leather satchel.
Connor Kelly
And a cardigan.
Matthew Edwards
And some biro pens.
Evan Hughes
What about socks I heard somewhere I need socks to program or some bull shit
Jaxon Morales
Then you'll end up working somewhere like here.
John Jackson
This is how gay you might end up looking. Genuinely socks went out with the Amiga. For some reason with the rise of Web development socks went into decline. It's a millenial thing I guess.
Josiah Ramirez
Get this
Andrew Cox
Jazzology is where you're going, really.
Parker Lee
If you already know some programming, you can try going through this. I found it quite helpful when I picked up python.
Gabriel Anderson
I know this is bait but I'll bite:
People who think this shit in real life are insufferable faggots who have 0 concept of how much abstraction there already is between them programming in "real" languages bare metal. The amount of abstraction that's achieved by going from logic gates to C is fucking astronomical, and you could probably never achieve writing a C compiler from bare metal in your entire life if it weren't for the work of hundreds of years of mathematicians working all this shit out for you. Comparatively, the jump from C to Python is minuscule in the grand scheme of things. Sure it might abstract away a few data structures and make things nicer to use, but it's nothing compared to carefully organizing bits of sand together in such a way that they perform actual computation.
Computer science and abstraction are tied together at the hip. Losers who can't understand that the continuous abstraction of mathematics is the very essence of computing are the most obnoxious fucking faggots in the world. The losers who can't understand that it's actually harder to think abstractly are the funniest of them all. Sure you can do the equivalent of hand-holding a modern abacus. You're not accomplishing anything by reinventing the wheel for the thousandth time, you're just doing it because someone needs some retarded shit to be fast, but you're not furthering the field of computer-science. You're not developing new fucking algorithms in C, you're implementing something that someone (far smarter than you) has already thought of in a slightly different flavor just so you can get a paycheck.
Michael Fisher
3. Not only 3 is a better language, but 2 is legacy and won't be supported soon. By using it, you further the divide.
Liam Perez
Check out automate the boring stuff with python. It's free online and the intro chapters are a great crash course
Jose Bailey
automatetheboringstuff.com
Don't even think about doing anything else, until you've used this site.
Liam Kelly
There are so many employment opportunities in the computing and IT sector.
Dylan Hall
Also try some pandas tutorials - pandas, numpy and tensorflow is where python, as a dynamic typed scripting glue for statically typed compiled way too complex crap shines.
Remember, that Python is only good as such kind of a glue (and it is being used in this way by very smart guys).
Zachary Young
glad to see my post became a pasta
Ryan Peterson