On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Amol Vaidya wrote: > "Casey Hawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> What languages do you know already? What computer science concepts do >> you know? What computer programming concepts do you know? Have you >> heard of Scheme?
Good questions! >> Ruby is a bit Perl like -- so if you like Perl, chances are you might >> like Ruby. I don't think rubyists would appreciate that description. Ruby may be heavier on the funky symbols than python, but it's a very clean, elegant, usable, well-thought-out and deeply object-oriented language - in other words, nothing at all like perl. >> Python is more like Java. Python is *nothing* like java. >> I have heard, but have not been able to verify that if a program is >> about >> 10,000 lines in C++ >> it is about >> 5,000 lines in Java >> and it is about >> 3,000 lines in Python (Ruby to?) ITYM 300. Yes, ruby too. > I've done a lot of studying on my own, and taken the classes that my > high-school offers. I feel that I have a fairly good understanding of > Java, and basic OO concepts due to that. I've created some semi-complex > programs in java, in my opinion, such as networked checkers, 8-player > blackjack, a space-shooter type game, a copy of mario (one level, > anyway), and some other stuff. I've also done a bit of studying on C. > I've done a few projects in C, including another space-shooter type of > game using SDL, an IRC client and some simple database-type programs. I > also gave a shot at assembly using NASM for x86 before, but didn't get > too far. I wrote some trivial code -- wrote to the video buffer, played > with some bios interrupts, stuff like that. The only thing I did in > assembly was create a program that loads at boot-up, and loads another > program that just reiterates whatever you type in. I only did that > because I was curious. That's about as far as my programming > knowledge/experience goes. An excellent start! > Well, I'm not sure what you mean by programming concepts. I'm familiar > with OO through Java, and procedural programming through C. I'd be more > detailed, but I'm not exactly sure what you are asking. Sorry. I think i know what Casey means, but i don't know if i can explain it any better. Do you understand the concept orthogonality? The Once And Only Once principle? Have you ever heard of design patterns? > I have no idea what Scheme is, but I'll cettainly look it up as soon as > I'm done writing this. You won't like it. Give yourself another 5-10 years, and you might start to find it strangely intriguing. > I've never given Perl a shot. It was another language I considered > learning, but my father's friend told me to go with Python or Ruby. Your father has good friends. > Thanks for your help. Hopefully I wasn't too lengthy in this post. Lengthy is fine! Anyway, the upshot of all this is that, yes, you should learn python. Python is dope! tom -- NOW ALL ASS-KICKING UNTIL THE END -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
