Re: Python advice

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Lua is a much simpler language than ECMAScript, incredibly >> light-weight, and easily sandboxed. It doesn't work with Unicode (I >> think its string type is eight-bit, so you have to wo

Re: Python advice

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Lua is a much simpler language than ECMAScript, incredibly > light-weight, and easily sandboxed. It doesn't work with Unicode (I > think its string type is eight-bit, so you have to work with encoded > bytes), which is a serious downside in

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:00 AM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > As a rule-of-thumb I'd recommend sticking to one or two high-level languages > until you are reasonably comfortable with them, then possibly branching to > other languages. As you've already started with Python, I'd continue on it > for a whil

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Kaynor > wrote: > > Python is pretty good base-line language. It is really good as a glue > > language to piece together other components, or for IO-bound or > user-bound > > code, but will not preform we

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Chris Kaynor wrote: > Python is pretty good base-line language. It is really good as a glue > language to piece together other components, or for IO-bound or user-bound > code, but will not preform well enough for many other applications such as > games. It is good

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread Chris Kaynor
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > > I need a way forward on what more free ebooks i can get mt hands on so i > can accomplish my goals. > > > > I need some advice. should i go on to learn other languages like java or > c++ cos i want to be able to using all these knowledge for

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread vek . m1234
1. Python Essential Reference, Python Standard Library by Example/Dive into Python 2. C (K.N.King), C++(Eckel), Python, Make, GCC, Lex/Yacc/Bison, Some HTML/CSS/XML/Javascript/XLTS+Python 3. I don't like Java much - never tried it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python advice

2014-09-22 Thread ngangsia akumbo
PRESENTLY I AM READING A BOOK MASTERING PYTHON ALGORITHMS. IT MAKES MUCH SENSE -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list