On Jul 31, 11:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > NicolasG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > The problem is that I would like to work as a Python programmer but > > all the job vacancies I can find requires a couple of years of > > professional experience ... that I don't have. How a wanna be > > programmer can start working as a programmer if there is no chance to > > start from somewhere ? That's the reason I created this topic. > > Open source projects do not require previous professional experience to > accept volunteers. So, one way out of your dilemma is to make a name > for yourself as an open source contributor -- help out with Python > itself and/or with any of the many open source projects that use Python, > and you will both learn a lot _and_ acquire "professional experience" > that any enlightened employer will recognize as such. That will take a > while, but not as long as getting a college degree (and it will be far > cheaper than the degree). > > Alex
Starting this Fall, Michigan State University's computer science department is moving to Python for its introductory courses. Student's following the ugrad curriculum will be exposed to both Python (early) and C++ (later). We feel this gives our students the best of both worlds: a high level scripting language that is easier to work with and provides many modules to do actual work, and an efficient, lower level language for speed and to interface with OS, graphics, networks etc. If you want more information, visit the dept. web pages at http://www.cse.msu.edu. However, and not suprisingly, things are out of date there and will probably not be up to date till the semester starts. So if you want something now, please send email to "bill.punch AT gmail.com" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
