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You could easily reduce that ten fold, most of the slides contain little information. Every developer already knows that you can add integers, combine booleans

by danbruc 10y ago

You could easily reduce that ten fold, most of the slides contain little information. Every developer already knows that you can add integers, combine booleans with and, and have alternatives with if and else. Or how lists and maps work. No need to repeat this in such detail, just list the type names, keywords and operators. Instead focus on what is special about Python like indentation and colons, slicing, __iter__, arbitrary precision integers, ... This are the important things, otherwise you can not really say you know much about Python because it is generic stuff that applies to most languages under the sun.

jacquesm 10y ago
You can just skip the slides you already know. Everybody has a different level of proficiency as a developer and a guide like this is aimed at a beginner, not at a seasoned developer. Since you don't know their background it doesn't hurt to repeat already familiar stuff because it is easy to move past that quickly if you already know it, but it would be a lot harder to make sense of the package if you so much as miss one or two simple steps or elements. For me one of the take-aways was the negative stride in a slice, I had not seen that yet and a couple of clever tricks such as 'dir' and 'help'. I've been doing nothing but python lately, and going through the whole deck to stop at the things I didn't know yet took only a couple of minutes.
mlindner 10y ago
I disagree. As a new coder when looking at a new language you don't know what's the same as what you're used to and what's different. Some things may be almost exactly the same but be slightly different. For example Python's division converts ints to floats in Python 3, for example. If you just leave out everything that's the same, the reader won't know what it's the same as. Also, the same compared to what? C? Everyone's first language is not the same.

by danbruc 10y ago

jacquesm 10y ago

You can just skip the slides you already know. Everybody has a different level of proficiency as a developer and a guide like this is aimed at a beginner, not at a seasoned developer. Since you don't know their background it doesn't hurt to repeat already familiar stuff because it is easy to move past that quickly if you already know it, but it would be a lot harder to make sense of the package if you so much as miss one or two simple steps or elements. For me one of the take-aways was the negative stride in a slice, I had not seen that yet and a couple of clever tricks such as 'dir' and 'help'. I've been doing nothing but python lately, and going through the whole deck to stop at the things I didn't know yet took only a couple of minutes.

mlindner 10y ago

I disagree. As a new coder when looking at a new language you don't know what's the same as what you're used to and what's different. Some things may be almost exactly the same but be slightly different. For example Python's division converts ints to floats in Python 3, for example. If you just leave out everything that's the same, the reader won't know what it's the same as. Also, the same compared to what? C? Everyone's first language is not the same.