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From scratch is relative. To a python programmer, from scratch may mean starting with dictionaries but a non-programmer will have to learn what python dicts are
by krmboya 2y ago
From scratch is relative. To a python programmer, from scratch may mean starting with dictionaries but a non-programmer will have to learn what python dicts are first.
To someone who already knows excel, from scratch with excel sheets instead of python may work with them.
- wredue 2y agoFor the record, if you do not know what a dict actually is, and how it works, it is impossible to use it effectively. Although if your claim is then that most programmers do not care about being effective, that I would tend to agree with given the 64 gigs of ram my basic text editors need these days.
- carlmr 2y ago>For the record, if you do not know what a dict actually is, and how it works, it is impossible to use it effectively. While I agree it's good to know how your collections work. "Efficient key-value store" may be enough to use it effectively 80% of the time for somebody dabbling in Python. Sadly I've met enough people that call themselves programmers that didn't even have such a surface level understanding of it.