-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/14 22:37, Altrius wrote: > Hi, > > I’m completely new to programming in general and everything I have > read so far has pointed me to Python. I’ll put this another way: > All I know is that a programming language is a medium for a human > to tell a computer what to do. After that I’m kinda lost. I was > just hoping to get some input as to where I might start. I’m not > completely computer illiterate but you can reply to me as if I am. > What should I work on learning first. I’m good at doing my own > research and teaching myself but I need to know what I’m > researching and where to start. Any advice would be VERY much > appreciated. > > Thanks, Altrius >
Hi Altrius, I'm also a noob. In addition to all the excellent recommendations already posted, I would suggest setting yourself a task to solve in python. It's far more interesting than working through the examples in most books - the challenge is solving each problem as you come across them. Google is excellent. The task I set myself is to write a script that interrogates the rsyncd.log file every day, to tell me if any new music has been added to my collection by my son. My linux machine is on 24/7. I have had to work out how to open the file, how to tell if it's been altered in the last 24 hours, if so how to extract the lines of interest, and how to slice those lines to get the artist and album names into a list. So far, so good but my output contains duplicates, so my final task is to work out how to get rid of them. You may find me popping up here again in a few days ;-) Good luck. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.10-7-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.12.2 Uptime: 18:00pm up 1 day 22:01, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.17, 0.21 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlL6sVAACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU54NgCeP+v3YJk7LxFBkYraOGUL3p94 h8YAn22UWIHzfnIutkk1yUNeMcPtfkgg =7Jq8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor