Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Alan Gauld
On 10/07/14 23:35, Deb Wyatt wrote: The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, Just get used to the idea that there is no end. Computer programming is such a young subject - less than 70 years old in practice - that it is still growing rapidly. By the time you lea

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Dave Angel
Mark Lawrence Wrote in message: > On > THINK BIG start small. Little steps. Divide and conquer. I'd guess > that you've heard at least one of those if not all of them. > > Personally I don't believe that you can call yourself a professional > programmer until you've inadvertantly written an

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10Jul2014 14:35, Deb Wyatt wrote: The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, and the more difficult some of the stuff to learn seems to be. I'm not sure that I would have set out on this journey to learn Python if I had known how massive the task was going t

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 10/07/2014 23:35, Deb Wyatt wrote: The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, and the more difficult some of the stuff to learn seems to be. I'm not sure that I would have set out on this journey to learn Python if I had known how massive the task was going t

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Danny Yoo
By the way, there was a nice talk from Camille Fournier that might be relevant to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc8sc-ELMhA Unfortunately, last time I checked, her presentation cuts off near the end. But the bangbangcon folks did a lot of great work on recording their conference, incl

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Sacha Rook
Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, and the more difficult some of the stuff to learn seems to be. I'm not sure that I would have set out on this journey to learn Python if I had known how massive th

Re: [Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Deb Wyatt wrote: > The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, and > the more difficult some of the stuff to learn seems to be. I'm not sure that > I would have set out on this journey to learn Python if I had known how > massive t

[Tutor] sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode

2014-07-10 Thread Deb Wyatt
The more I learn, the more I realize that there is so much more to learn, and the more difficult some of the stuff to learn seems to be. I'm not sure that I would have set out on this journey to learn Python if I had known how massive the task was going to be. I AM enjoying it, but my gosh, whe