Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-26 Thread Schneider
I would say it's a little bit more: You have to know the keywords and (basic) concepts, e.g. you really have to understand what it means, that everything is a class. If you get foreign, you have to be able to understand it. And the other way round, given a problem, you should be able to write a

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 23:41:10 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:55:24 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: Then it seems to me that work in the direction should be an active feature request. Unforch, as I've said before, I'm rowing this

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-23 Thread CM
On Friday, September 20, 2013 5:58:00 AM UTC-4, Aseem Bansal wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? Seems to me a fuzzy

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux, and for about 10 minutes thought I could make use of the library

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 September 2013 15:46:52 Gene Heskett did opine: On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com declaimed the following: I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux,

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 September 2013 01:34:50 Chris Angelico did opine: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote:

What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? I come from a C background which is comparatively smaller. But as Python is comparatively much

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread rusi
On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? I come from a C

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-09-20 02:58, Aseem Bansal wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? It's a fuzzy line. A good while back, there was a

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Robert Kern
On 2013-09-20 12:43, rusi wrote: On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? I come from a C

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread rusi
On Friday, September 20, 2013 7:09:13 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Kern wrote: On 2013-09-20 12:43, rusi wrote: Stroustrup says he is still learning C++ and I know kids who have no qualms saying they know programming language L (for various values of L) after hardly an hour or two of mostly

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not. Well, based on my definition, that's easy to answer. Have you solved problems using Python? If

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
By C being smaller than Python I did not mean the scope of C is lesser than Python. I simply meant that the standard libraries are less in number compared to Python. By knowing Python I didn't imply an expert-level understanding. Minimum that so someone cannot say Hey, you said you knew Python

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Janssen
I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? Interesting. I would say that you must know the keywords, how to make a Class, how to write

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
I think it is a philosophical question. It's like saying I know maths, which is a ridiculous phrase I was surprised to hear, let alone surprised to hear often. Can someone know everything there is to know about something ? I doubt it. The point, at least for me, isn't to know everything ..

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not. Well, based on my

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
I understand that being able to solve problems and knowing when to use something is the final measure of knowing something properly. But I wanted to find something quantitative that I can use to measure myself. Like the interview questions that Tim Chase posted. Measuring myself based on the

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/20/2013 5:58 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote: I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python? I come from a C background which is comparatively

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.192.1379694881.18130.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to gauge myself to find if I am

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying I know Python

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article mailman.192.1379694881.18130.python-l...@python.org, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal asmbans...@gmail.com wrote: I hope that cleared some confusion about what I