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Python: What are some good resources and how did you finally "get it"? - Bandit - 05-25-2014
So, I have no background experience in any programming except for some Shell scripting (Bash) but I really didn't go into that too much since if you ever want to make a bash file you just simply type in a couple of google searches and figure out the commands and shiz you want..
Like I was saying, no experience in programming and python seems like a great place to start except I'm having a hard time finding solid resources that I can learn from. I downloaded the book "Learn python the hard way", it sucked. The book was way too abstract for me. I went on some sites that were dedicated to teaching python but most assume you have done some programming before or they don't explain everything. I want to learn python extremely bad as I want to have fun with it and begin to write my own tools and start projects/building CLI programs. Python to me is an ideal place to start for me.
Two questions:
What are some really good books/sites/videos/whatever that you highly reccomend?
How did you exactly learn python? What way made it click for you?
Suggestions? Thanks.
RE: Python: What are some good resources and how did you finally "get it"? - Spirit - 05-25-2014
I'm not going to take the time to give you a huge list of different books to read and such, but instead, I'm just going to give you these few resurces; a video, an interactive learning website, and a few threads from HC.
I would have to say that this is my personal favorite video of them all:
This combined with the interactive learning website CodeCademy gave me a good, starting foundation when it came to understanding Python.
I'd also recommend checking out some of the other threads in the Python forum here at HackCommunity. @Ex094's thread "Python for Beginners" didn't necessarily teach me to write code, but it definitely helped me understand a few things in particular about Python. So, I'd definitely give that a read.
RE: Python: What are some good resources and how did you finally "get it"? - HomeSen - 05-25-2014
After you got some basic idea about script development/programming, I can totally recommend "Violent Python" by TJ O'Connor.
It's a quite entertaining read, packed with a lot "background stories" to the scripts you'll write there. I'm not sure if it's a good starting, when you basically have no clue about scripting and/or programming (despite "mixing and matching Google results"
).I, myself, have started with Bash, proceeded with Perl (due to Bash's horrible execution "speed") and started learning Python, since I frequently hit Perl's boundaries with what I wanted it to do
Other than scripting, I've learned C/C++ (only rudimentary from what you learn at university), Java, Visual Basic (totally hate that "language"), transitioned to Visual Basic .NET (still hating it's syntax and bad programming habits it caused) and went to C# from there.
What really made Python "click" for me was migrating all (or better: most of) my Bash and Perl scripts to it. I knew what I wanted Python to do for me, and finally making it do it gave me quite a lot insight into the language.
RE: Python: What are some good resources and how did you finally "get it"? - Cosh - 05-26-2014
http://www.codecademy.com is pretty good to learn to some coding for python