Re: [Tutor] How to add extra Vbox fields dynamically

2010-06-19 Thread Lang Hurst
OK, I just did the ugliest hack, from someone who only seems to do ugly hacks. I set up a bunch of textview areas and defaulted them to 'not visible'. Then as I loop through my query results, I make them visible one at a time. Well, it works perfect, but it just doesn't seem right for some r

[Tutor] How to add extra Vbox fields dynamically

2010-06-19 Thread Lang Hurst
I hope that I'm asking this in the right place. I don't have too much trouble hacking together command line stuff, but the GUI part is a struggle for me. I created a UI in glade. It has a couple of Vboxes for information. The final box is filled with a TextView. In my program, I'm connecti

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread bob gailer
6/19/2010 11:51 AM, Steve Bricker wrote: Back in ancient days, my college training began with FORTRAN the first semester, then COBOL, ALC (BAL), and RPG in the second semester. Back in even more ancient days, my college training began with IBM 650 machine language, then ALC (SOAP), then CLASS

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Knacktus
~So is it better to learn 1 programming language first, then learn another. Or better to pretty much learn them at the same time? And why? First, I think python is a bit underrated for creating "real" applications. I'm amazed again and again by it's power on all programming scales (e.g. quic

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 19/06/2010 04:55, Independent Learner wrote: ~After doing a google search, I could not find any good solid anwsers. So I will apologize ahead of time since this is not really a Python specific question. However... ~I was wondering if I should try to learn 2 programming languages at once, P

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:55:05 pm Independent Learner wrote: > >> ~I was wondering if I should try to learn 2 programming languages at >> once, Python and C++. > > I don't know. That depends on you. > > How much time do you have to spend on l

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Steve Bricker
Back in ancient days, my college training began with FORTRAN the first semester, then COBOL, ALC (BAL), and RPG in the second semester. Even though this was back when dinosaurs were still ruling the earth, the learning program remains relevant. Understand one language in a practical way, then us

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread David Hutto
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:24 AM, ALAN GAULD wrote: > > >> belt, then go ahead and learn anything else you like. But even then, if you >> have >> to learn two new ones at the same time, I'd recommend they be very unlike. >> So you could learn Lisp or Forth at the same time as you were learning Rub

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread ALAN GAULD
> belt, then go ahead and learn anything else you like. But even then, if you > have > to learn two new ones at the same time, I'd recommend they be very unlike. > So you could learn Lisp or Forth at the same time as you were learning Ruby, > but > I'd not try to learn Perl and Python at th

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Dave Angel
Alan Gauld wrote: "Independent Learner" wrote ~I was wondering if I should try to learn 2 programming languages at once, Python and C++. No, no no! If it had been a different pair I might have said try it. But C++ is one of the most difficult, complex and difficult programming lamnguages ou

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:55:05 pm Independent Learner wrote: > ~I was wondering if I should try to learn 2 programming languages at > once, Python and C++. I don't know. That depends on you. How much time do you have to spend on learning the languages? If it's one hour a week, you'll have trouble

Re: [Tutor] Question

2010-06-19 Thread Alan Gauld
"Independent Learner" wrote ~I was wondering if I should try to learn 2 programming languages at once, Python and C++. No, no no! If it had been a different pair I might have said try it. But C++ is one of the most difficult, complex and difficult programming lamnguages out there. It is fu