dwaynecrooks

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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
> If you're gonna spend many thousands of hours using a language, don't use initial learn-time as the one thing to optimize for! That reminds me of this wonderful talk by Rich Hickey called Simple Made Easy, https://
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
This article is 100% about a way to learn Python efficiently.
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
Huh? Where in the article did I say or imply that learning Pyret is an efficient way to learn Python? I said if you're a complete beginner then you can consider Pyret. As for people who already know some programming I didn't sugge
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
That's true, sorry about that. Thanks to whoever fixed it.
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
> Point is, we think in different ways, so keep trying different approaches until something sticks. So true, great advice. You have to experiment and find out what works for yourself.
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
I tend to agree as well. The Pyret option is probably better done with a mentor by your side. If no mentor is available like they probably have in the Bootstrap ( http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ ) program then Python is more t
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I got interested in programming because I wanted to build cool things. I just dived right in trying to learn whatever was necessary to help me build games. Unfortunately, plenty people aren't coming to pro
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by dwaynecrooks 10y ago
Well, first off it's just a suggestion so take it with a grain of salt and ultimately do what works for you. But I see your point and I did struggle with whether to include it or not. I think me wanting to share the great work I see Sh
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Advice on learning Python efficiently(simplydjango.com)
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Creating Node.js modules with ES2015(blog.dwaynecrooks.com)
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Beautiful, fully-tested and performant Ruby code for Tic-tac-toe(github.com)
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Convert photographs to ASCII using Ruby(blog.dwaynecrooks.com)
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Thoughtbot's Phil LaPier on Design for Developers(blog.dwaynecrooks.com)
1 points by dwaynecrooks 12y ago|0 comments