On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 9:57:46 PM UTC+5:30, Navneet Siddhant wrote: > On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 9:42:47 PM UTC+5:30, Steve D'Aprano 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. > > Yes ... Im allowed to take help as this group and python forums and other > links were suggested to me by them. Have been trying since morning not > getting the desired results , posted here as last resort .. and Im ok if I > dont find what m seeking. Though m getting close , lets see what I could > achieve.
Btw my institute has referred me for this job in the company who has further emailed me with the assignment to complete after which I will have face to face interviews. Im still wondering as why I was told to do a python assignment when nowhere in my CV i have mentioned about python nor it was taught to us in the curriculum -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
