On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:11:27 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Mark R Rivet <markrri...@aol.com> writes: >>>ones for a few dollars. You're reading about lists, tuples, and >>>dictionary data? Great, but other home accounting businesses have their >>>client databases automatically synced with their smart-phones and their >>>time-charging and their invoicing. >> Well I have to say that this is most discouraging. I should give up >> learning to program. I don't have a chance at all. Thanks. > > I think the idea is just to start with something simpler. If you are > interested in mechanical engineering, then building an automobile from > scratch, machining all the parts yourself etc., would be an ill-advised > choice as a first project. It's the same way with programming.
And he has it backwards anyway, IMHO. If he wants a client database and insists on building it himself, he should start with the relational database and work up; not from the GUI and try to work down with silly solutions like pickling. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
