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How Much Python Do You Need To Know To Be Useful?
Nerval's Lobster writes: Since Python is a general-purpose language, it finds its way into a whole lot of different uses and industries. That means the industry in which you work has a way of determining what you actually need to know in terms of the language, as developer Jeff Cogswell explains in a new Dice piece. For example, if you're hired to write apps that interact with operating systems and monitor devices, you might not need to know how to use the Python modules for scientific and numerical programming. In a similar fashion, if you're hired to write Python code that interacts with a MySQL database, then you won't need to master how it works with CouchDB. The question is, how much do you need to know about Python's basics? Cogswell suggests there are three basic levels to learning Python: Learn the core language itself, such as the syntax and basic types (and the difference between Python 2 and Python 3); learn the commonly used modules, and familiarize yourself with other modules; learn the bigger picture of software development with Python, such as including Python in a build process, using the pip package manager, and so on. But is that enough?
So here's the link with the campaign tracking removed.
It looks like Dice is going to run a series of non-articles detailing what we should know, and have started to embed shit like "?CMPID=AF_SD_UP_JS_AV_OG_DNA_" this in their self-promoting URLs.
Click bait is click bait. Especially when done by sleazy assholes like Dice.
Fuck you, dicebags.
I know 0 hours worth of python and still was the only person to present an all python solution at a job interview asking people to solve a problem in python.
I think zero is close to the amount needed to be competitive with those that *only* know python.
Yea, reminds me of the time a co-worker wrote a little utility in C++. It was only a few dozen lines and took him less than an hour to get it working; I did the same thing in one line of awk in less than a minute.
see what it can do.
Tables use white space to convey structure. Do you think they are retarded?
Paragraphs usually have a first line with extra white space. Is this retarded?
Centering titles implies using lots of white space. Is this retarded?
Operas have white spaces between arias. Supposedly this is also retarded, isn't it?
> You have to know enough to know that it makes whitespace significant. That's useful, because it should lead you to choose another scripting language, one which is less retarded.
You used white spaces in your post. Why? Are they significant or is your post retarded?
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