On 2016-08-15, Sickfit92 <pe.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. How long did it take you guys to master the language or, let me
> put it this way to completely get the hang and start writing code?
A few hours. The core language is pretty simple. [I was already
fluent in a number of other programming languages -- if you haven't
programmed before, it will take longer.] After 17 years working with
Python, there are still some esoteric features (e.g. decorators) that
I'm not very familiar with, and there will always be libraries to
learn...
> 2. What made you want to learn python?
I needed an Windows app that could suck email messages from MS-Outlook
via the COM interface and send them to an SMTP server. I found some
example code showing how to do both transactions using Python (and
Python was free). Though I had never used Python, I had heard of
Python because it's what RedHat used to write their Linux installer (a
program called Anaconda).
> 3. Was it difficult to learn the language?
Nope, very easy.
> 4. Have you been able to get a job out of your new skill?
Sort of. Over the past 17 years we've used Python for a number of
projects where I work, and have since then hired somebody specifically
because they had developed Python applications using particulary
libraries.
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