Markpy

Hi all, I found this site on Google and decided to join. I don't have much programming experience. I have played around with HTML and JavaScript on a few websites. I have also looked around into other languages but couldn't find anything that I was comfortable using. Then I found Python and was instantly drawn in and would like to become proficient in the language. I have read the tutorials on the Python site as well as others and feel that I know the syntax pretty well, but I'm finding difficult to actually progress and do anything useful. I have glance read the Python library reference and just want to keel over, how can I remember the name of each module and its classes and functions and when/how they should be used? I guess that comes with time and I should concentrate on getting to know one module at a time.

Anyway I'll stop rambling and see what I can do

Arevos

Hello there. Incidentally, that's the same way I found these forums, yesterday morning.

You don't

At least, that's my approach to the problem. I've been programming in Python for about four years now, and I don't know all the libraries off by heart. That's what the library reference is there for, after all.

Don't get me wrong; it pays to know what's in the library, but only in a general sense. For instance, I know that there's a regular expression library called "re", and I've used it many times, but I couldn't tell you offhand how to match a regular expression in a string.

Other programmers may have different views and methods, but that's the way I've always approached the problem. Learn what libraries do, but don't bother trying to remember the specifics. If you need to use a library on a daily basis, you'll find yourself remembering what it does, but for libraries that aren't going to be used that often, don't bother with them until you need them.

Markpy

Thanks for the tip. I think that looking at examples will help too, I will spend some time at the ASPN Python Cookbook and Useless Python where I can dissect some scripts and see what is going on.

OpenLoop

Welcome to the Forums.
We have a nice base of Python programmer here (I'm not one of them) which you can get some ideas from.

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I don't like Useless Python, try out the official Python guide, or something else. Useless Python seemed .. well useless.

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I've been programming for nearly 20 years, and the Python Library Reference confuses me. Luckily, the internet has a lot of 3rd party references for Python.

Python is a great choice for a first language.

I started in BASIC, if I had started in Pascal or Python(it didn't exist yet), the jump to C would have been easy.

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