> its still my contention that the best method by which to learn any language is the "There ain't nothin' to it but to do it" method. This is really good metho

> its still my contention that the best method by which to learn any language is the "There ain't nothin' to it but to do it" method. This is really good method, but doing it alone may not teach you the correct paradigms of the language. You can write FORTRAN in any language, but you probably shouldn't. If I were about to learn Python by just converting some PHP fragments, I would surely miss those characteristics that seperate Python from PHP. However, by reading other people's code or reading some documents on idiomatic Python (e.g. [1]), my understanding would be much better. [1] - http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/han...