On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:41:09 AM UTC+5:30, David Hutto wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean reinventing the wheel is a bad thing, just > that once you get the hang of things, you need to display some creativity in > your work to set yourself apart from the rest. > Nowadays, everyone's a programmer. > If it weren't for reinventing the wheel, then we wouldn't have abs(antilock > breaking systems), or new materials, or different treading for water > displacement or hydroplaning. > The point was just to try something in python, and to 'boldly go where no > 'man' has gone before'. > Just to remind her that it's not just about python, but what you can > accomplish with it, and distinguish yourself from others.
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, David Hutto <dwight...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my opinion, a novice always tries to reinvent the wheel. Take for example > > a simple text editor. > Which isn't a bad thing. Especially in that particular case, it's good > to try your hand at writing a text editor - most of the hard > grunt-work is done for you (just plop down an edit control - in some > toolkits you can even deploy a control with full source code > highlighting), so you can focus on figuring out what it is that makes > yours different. And then you'll appreciate other editors more :) But > along the way, you'll learn so much about what feels right and what > feels wrong. And maybe you can incorporate some of your own special > unique features into whatever editor you end up using... quite a few > are scriptable. For the young-n-enthu "Make haste slowly!" is usually good advice -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
