On 12/14/2016 10:53 AM, kirby urner wrote: > > At the PDX Code Guild, which has a Monday > night Flying Circus event, which I've been > frequenting -- though not in the last five weeks > as my teaching gig was Mon / Weds -- I hear > quite a few geeks say they've been studying > Learning Python the Hard Way by Zed Shaw. > > I finally took a look at the on-line version > yesterday and notice he's very adamant about > learning 2.7, not 3.x. Disappointing. Maybe > he's working on the 3.x version. >
Ah... you seem to have missed the entertainment on Reddit and HN back in November ;) https://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/nopython3.html "THERE IS A HIGH PROBABILITY THAT PYTHON 3 IS SUCH A FAILURE IT WILL KILL PYTHON" https://zedshaw.com/2016/11/24/the-end-of-coder-influence/ There are any number of threads & blogs on various sites (Reddit, HN, etc.) addressing / rebutting his comments. On the one hand... I kind of agree with him, that it sure seems like it would have been a better design decision to have made the Py3 VM seamlessly handle Py2 code. Other languages have done it to various degrees. Lord knows it's been a major schism in the community for way too long. That said... I personally don't care for his way of addressing the topic... but thats just me. He's certainly free to say what he wants. It does somewhat raise the question of whether his material is a good example to put forth for people new to the community. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig