Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : >> My 2 cents. > > Eurozone? That would be 3 cents US. > > I meant colon, not semi-colon. I did the tutorial. I did objects 3 > times. That's not where you'll learn the inners of Python's object model. You may want to browse this thread for some hints: http://groups.

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread Peter Otten
MartinRinehart wrote: > 10 days is not enough. But I don't have any more clarity in my Python > classes than I did in Java. Just more "self"s. Watch your classes evolve over the next weeks. They will get smaller, with less state and fewer methods with less code. Occasionally you will use a functi

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> My 2 cents. > > Eurozone? That would be 3 cents US. > > I meant colon, not semi-colon. I did the tutorial. I did objects 3 > times. > > In Java, the agreed convention is to use lowerAndUpper naming for > member variables. (See > http://www.MartinRinehart.com/article

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread Marco Mariani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 10 days is not enough. But I don't have any more clarity in my Python > classes than I did in Java. You do when you start using classes the python way, and do things that are not even thinkable in java or any static language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread MartinRinehart
> My 2 cents. Eurozone? That would be 3 cents US. I meant colon, not semi-colon. I did the tutorial. I did objects 3 times. In Java, the agreed convention is to use lowerAndUpper naming for member variables. (See http://www.MartinRinehart.com/articles/code-conventions.html#5_1 .) 10 days is n

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-19 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Warning! Complaints coming. > > The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced > me that I picked the right language. Now, observations. > > First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it > was. In addition to making a

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 18, 2:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But where? Look it up in the function reference. OK, > where's the function reference? A line of code that you'd type in a > second is a ten-minute search. Thank God for google. Maybe this will help: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html But sinc

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-18 Thread Steven Bethard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it > was. In addition to making a fool of yourself in public, you have to > look up everything. I wanted to find a substring in a string. OK, > Python's a serious computer language, so you know it's got a

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-18 Thread John Machin
On Dec 19, 7:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Warning! Complaints coming. > > The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced > me that I picked the right language. Now, observations. > > First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it > was. In additi

Newbie observations

2007-12-18 Thread MartinRinehart
Warning! Complaints coming. The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced me that I picked the right language. Now, observations. First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it was. In addition to making a fool of yourself in public, you have to lo