On 2014-02-12, Tim Delaney <timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK - it's degenerated into one of these threads - I'm going to > participate.
Me, too! I wrote lots of programs, strictly for fun, on every personal computer I got my hands on. Toward the end of the 80's personal computer's stopped coming equipped with programming environments, and I stopped programming. I eventually learned some computing theory in college where they taught C and the rudiments of C++. Thanks to the open-source movement we've returned to the days when anybody can program for zero cash. You can program well enough to amuse yourself with very little effort indeed. To get from there to being able to write programs to do useful things for yourself is a lot harder, but this is the niche that Python fills excellent well. If this is what you want to do, Python is a good way to go. That's still just the beginning, but it's a pretty good place. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list