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Just curious - why would you use python if you don't know it?

• gverrilla 5y ago
  I did a teamtreehouse or codeacademy course on Python maybe 6 or 7 years ago, but that was all - not even a single project. Mainly my programming experience existed because when I was a teenager I would create scripts for ultima online using EUO [0] and a few times Simba[1]. Also I managed an ecommerce operation for a few years, so I dealt with coders and eventually code. Actually, I started this project in VBA after my partner insisted on it because he had those sheets with all the parameters for the model already in excel, and also a GUI he had created for the input. I accepted because I had taken a course on it @ uni, but soon felt the need for an easier way to program, and that's when I decided to go to Python. 0: http://www.easyuo.com/ http://www.easyuo.com/ 1: https://wizzup.org/simba/ https://wizzup.org/simba/
  • rak1507 5y ago
    Fair enough, it sounded a bit like you learned python specifically for this project.
    • gverrilla 5y ago
      My bad for not being precise: I had to learn Python specifically for this project because the only memory I had about the course was: "Python bare basics were easy to learn". I had never even installed python locally or anything and saw those courses at the time as only games to get some minimum idea about the language, as I had no intended use for it. Adding to this topic, now I can say it was easy enough, even for someone like me. A few times I needed help from actual people and got it from the kind and amazing folks that hang around StackOverflow Python chat, but mostly Python docs (or some simplified form of it provided by other website) and google queries would do the job when I had a code obstacle. Python was overall very intuitive for me, apart from a few surprises (mainly regarding scopes and names).