On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:41 AM DonK <don81...@comcast.net.removeme> wrote: > > > Hi, I'm thinking about learning Python but I'm 74 years old and will > very likely not ever have a programming job again. I used to program > in Visual Basic, C\C++, Delphi, etc. and some obscure "mainframe" > languages. It's been about 18-19 years since my last programming job. > I do understand programming concepts but I'm really not up on any of > the more modern programming languages. > > I've installed Python 3.7, the PyCharm IDE and watched some Youtube > tutorials but it's been stretched out over about 1.5 years so I'll > probably need to go back to the beginning. My problem is that I don't > understand how Python programs are used. (i.e user input and output) > Is Python mainly used for backends? >
Python is used in many different ways. I'd recommend focusing first on the simple console input and output, which are available as the input() and print() built-in functions; those are sufficient for a vast majority of situations. Beyond that, you run into what's best described as "inherent complexity"; building a good user interface is, by its nature, not simple. If it's easier, you can look into using a web browser as your user interface. Python is superb at building web servers and web applications, so you can easily design your app so the user interacts with it using a very simple browser-based front end - either with JavaScript or as a really easy form fill-out. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
