Some more context: I had been programming for most of year, and I had two university courses under my belt. (OO in Java and Data Structures in C++) I was feelin

Some more context: I had been programming for most of year, and I had two university courses under my belt. (OO in Java and Data Structures in C++) I was feeling pretty good with basic Python and had a couple modules in the standard library down. Reading an introductory book aimed at experienced programmers seemed (and still seems) perfectly reasonable, especially when I could not (at the time) find alternate examples of code covered in a couple chapters.