Re: [MLUG] good intro to programming for a teenager?

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Ah.. no ()'s
That does look a little weird.

That's kinda like looking at a QBASIC source (*.BAS)

My Coding morals came from CACC, When i was learning pascal.
i still use the coding morals for C, PHP, Perl and...
even HTML tags inside PHP code (Indenting HTML tags in the PHP indented
script).

I dont think its too bad,
I would just imitate the sample Source codes.

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael wrote:

> I'd say Python is one of the easiest languages to learn and use. The bitch is 
> unlearning all your bad habits programming in other languages taught you. 
> It's a lot less painful though if you've already learned other non-C-like 
> languages like LISP or Prolog. Otherwise learning Python will make learning 
> those languages a little bit easier.
>
> The real biggest hurdles are learning to use whitespace instead of braces and 
> that you can't assign variables inside of an evaluation.
>
> ie
>
> if ( i = i - 1 ) {
> print i;
> }
>
> becomes:
>
> i = i - 1
> if i:
> print i
>
>
> An extra line of code but it makes debugging and maintaining your programs 
> MUCH easier. That lil kind of thing is what bugs most experienced programmers 
> new to Python. It just doesn't allow you enough rope to hang yourself with. 
> Of course all of us have our own lil complaints. I'm still fighting with them 
> to add a switch statement and a ternary operator. :)
>
> > I've heard that python can be a Bitch to learn.
>
>
>
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