On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Wayne Werner <wa...@waynewerner.com> wrote:
> > Rather than simple self-study, why not take advantage of the offerings by > such folks as Coursera, Edx, or Kahn Academy? > I had briefly looked at Kahn Academy quite a while back, but it did not seem (at that time) to have what I needed. I will re-investigate. I had recently looked at the MIT and Stanford free offerings. I liked the Stanford first course on Intro to C.Sc. and actually started to work through it, until I went into analysis paralysis! Somehow at work, which I am not hired to any programming whatsoever, I have become ever more deeply involved in doing scripts to extend the capabilities and usefulness of the software environment we do our work in, which is wonderful providing the users its own scripting language/environment which is further extendable with external scripts (to the software) using Perl. I say Perl, as this was the only language (beyond Solaris shell scripting) available on the system for doing these things... I am getting off topic! (I did not want to use C, C++ or Java to manipulate text files.) Anyway, I knew that when we eventually upgraded our software and hardware that Python would then become available and I thought that this would give me a better grounding, starting off, in good programming practices than continuing in Perl. So now I am trying learn Python as time becomes available. Anyway, I will look into the suggestions above and see if I can pursue a close to complete track in C.Sc./software engineering. > *Most* of the Python books that I've read are at least as well-suited to > self study as any of the rest of them. Although, my own personal experience > is that contributing to this list has done more to help me really understand > the basics of Python and development than anything else. > I wholeheartedly agree with you here! I now have a collection of Python books that I think will get me to where I want to be with Python. Now I just have to find the time to work through them! And this list teaches me every day even when I do not have any time at all for study. Just reading the posts, which are never onerous in their number each day, constantly teaches. The people on this list go above and beyond in the level of effort they put into their answers to questions. Thanks! boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
