On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote: > I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python > documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum > that I must know before I can say that I know Python? > > > > I come from a C background which is comparatively smaller. But as Python is > comparatively much larger what minimum should I know? > > > > Just a general question not for a specific purpose.
Stroustrup says he is still learning C++ and I know kids who have no qualms saying they know programming language L (for various values of L) after hardly an hour or two of mostly advertising and pep-talk exposure. So without knowing what you mean my 'knowing' I am not going to try answering q-1 I am just curious about q-2 -- C is small compared to python -- whats your measure for that? BTW 20 years ago I wrote about why C is very hard to learn and teach In these intervening years some things have changed, some have not See http://blog.languager.org/2013/02/c-in-education-and-software-engineering.html#relevate -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
