Python

1. 2015-08-19 at 1:26 PM UTC

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   mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
   Can anybody direct me to any good tutorials, etc
   
   
   
   thanks
   
   oh and also, feel free to chat about coding languages of any kind.
2. 2015-08-19 at 3:27 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Python is the best thing since sliced bread.
   
   http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=626170
   
   https://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python
   
   There you go. I hear it's better for newcomers to start with python 3+ however i find that a lot of the materials i use are written in 2.7, the syntax is a little different but starting with the newest will be best i reckon. Personally i have the interpreter for 2.7 and 3+ but i find myself working in 2.7 mostly for one reson or another.
   
   Also, python is dank as shit, everyone i talk to says it's an excellent general purpose language and i find it very forgiving to get into.
3. 2015-08-25 at 10:39 PM UTC

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   Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
   Here's some more useful stuff.
   
   Official Documentation
   
   Grey Hat Python, e-book
   
   Black Hat Python, e-book
   
   This is a good site to get into it as well. They even have an online 'interpreter' as it were so you don't even have to get python to start learning here.
   
   http://www.learnpython.org/en/
4. 2015-08-26 at 6:01 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   My personal pick in python learning material is Think Python: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html
   
   It's probably the most "theoretical" popular resource, not in the sense that it doesn't have practical content but I think it covers more classically interesting content up front; recursion is covered in an early chapter whereas more traditional resources hide it away like some deep dirty secret which I think is both misguided a disservice to the novice since it's an interesting and important concept (consider that the pinnacle of introductory materials, SICP, uses a language that has no non-recursive looping construct).
   
   The other two other books which are popular are Learn Python the Hard Way (which I think is bullshit, Zed Shaw is a cunt and shits FUD all over the place with his subpar understanding of the language and its idiom) and Dive Into Python (which is good but a little blue collar for my tastes, perhaps the superior learning material but Think Python is more high minded IMO).
5. 2015-08-26 at 6:02 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   Also yeah, python has superior official documentation on all the core libraries. It's definitely worth getting to know early.
6. 2015-08-26 at 5:43 PM UTC

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   arthur treacher African Astronaut
   I got halfway through 'python the hard way' and it sucked, and I quit.
   
   someday I may try again.
7. 2020-11-08 at 6:42 AM UTC

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   mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
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8. 2020-11-20 at 4:41 PM UTC

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   mashlehash victim of incest [my perspicuously dependant flavourlessness]
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