Learning new APIs/classes (beginner question)
In a nutshell: My question is: how do experienced coders learn about external/third-party classes/APIs? I'm teaching myself Python through a combination of Hetland's 'Beginning Python', various online tutorials and some past experience coding ASP/VBScript. To start to learn Python I've set myself the task of coding a viewer/editor for Google Contacts and Google Calendar, mainly because I've been experiencing some synchronisation anomalies lately. This has so far entailed getting into Google's Contacts API. Although they give some examples, my searches haven't been able to pull up anything approaching comprehensive documentation on each class/method. Can anyone experienced advise on how they would usually go about learning to use third party APIs/classes like these? With thanks, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Learning new APIs/classes (beginner question)
On Apr 7, 1:52 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Sounds like this library is documented the same way most third party > libraries are: as an afterthought, by somebody who is so familiar with > the software that he cannot imagine why anyone might actually need > documentation. > > I feel your pain. > Thanks Steven, I suspected this might be the case, but wasn't sure if I was missing something obvious. Maybe I'll start on a different project using better-documented or just the build-in libraries. Many thanks, Martin. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
