+1 at Steve.... On 6 Oct 2016 19:17, "Steve D'Aprano" <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 02:30 am, alister wrote: > > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 08:22:05 -0700, desolate.soul.me wrote: > > > >> So I've just started up with python and an assignment was given to me by > >> a company as an recruitment task. > >> > > so by your own admission you have just started with python yet you > > consider your self suitable for employment? > > What's your problem Alister? Do you think that junior devs aren't allowed > to > ask for help? > > Desolate.Soul.Me has either applied for a job, and their interview test > is "do this task using Python", or he's been accepted in a new job, and the > same applies. > > Whether it's a learning exercise, a test of skill + initiative, or actual > work given to a junior developer, Desolate.Soul.Me is perfectly entitled > to > ask for help. > > This isn't some artificially constrained academic homework, with stupidly > strict and hypocritical rules about so-called "plagiarism". This is the > real world where you take all the help you can get and you shouldn't feel > ashamed for asking for help. ESPECIALLY in the open source world, including > Python, where one of the community values is to share expertise. > > My own employer has hired plenty of junior developers and given them > relatively minor tasks to do as a learning exercise. We're not going to > trust a junior developer with a critical piece of code, but we might say: > > "Scrape this website. Use Python. Here's the Python For Beginners > book. Here's the Python documentation, and a few more forums where > you can ask for help. If you get stuck, and aren't getting useful > answers from the forums, you can ask Lisa. But not today, as she's > busy doing a critical release and can't be disturbed." > > > P.S. Desolate.Soul.Me, you might be taken a bit more seriously if you > give a > name, or at least a moniker or nick-name which is easier for others to > refer to you by. It doesn't have to be your birthname, or legal name. What > do your friends and workmates call you? > > > I don't know Beautiful Soup, so I'm afraid I can't help. > > > > -- > Steve > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure > enough, things got worse. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
