Re: Selective HTML doc generation

[Graham Ashton]

Thanks Brian, much appreciated. Looks quite straightforward.

Graham

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Re: Beginner advice

[Graham Ashton]

On Mar 31, 8:15 am, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, now I just need some justification on the
> GTK/GUI stuff - wxWidgets, GTK+ Glade or other?

pyGTK is great. I used it quite heavily a year or so ago. GTK is a
nice tool kit from the user's perspective too; you can make some
rather attractive and usable applications with it, and the GUI builder
is a boon. Obviously it integrates slightly better into it's native
platform than it does Mac/Windows, but if you're targetting Ubuntu
users then it's a great choice.

I've never used wxWidgets in anger but I didn't take to it having used
pyGTK quite extensively. I guess it just wasn't for me. Back then
(things may have changed) it didn't (visually) integrate quite so well
into a modern GNOME desktop either, even though it was using GTK to
draw the widgets. I'd re-evaluate it if I really wanted to build a
cross platform app though.
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Re: Good books in computer science?

[Graham Ashton]

On 2009-06-14 03:34:34 +0100, Paul Rubin  said:


Roy Smith  writes:

In the same vein, Death March, by Ed Yourdon.


I've been wanting to read "Antipatterns".


I bought it but couldn't get into it. Light on meat, heavy on boredom 
(for me - these things are always somewhat subjective).


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Re: Good books in computer science?

[Graham Ashton]

On 2009-06-14 14:04:02 +0100, Steven D'Aprano 
 said:



Nathan Stoddard wrote:


The best way to become a good programmer is to program. Write a lot of
code; work on some large projects. This will improve your skill more than
anything else.


I think there are about 100 million VB code-monkeys who prove that theory
wrong.


Really? So you don't think that the best way to get good at something 
is to practice? I think I'm paraphrasing Richard Feynman here, but the 
only way to truly understand something is to do it.


Obviously a bit of guided learning is a major boon, but you can't be practice.

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Re: Good books in computer science?

[Graham Ashton]

On 2009-06-14 06:38:32 +0100, koranthala  said:


The Pragmatic Programmer - Planning to buy,
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - again planning to
buy,


These are my top two recommendations for people who can already code a 
bit, but who want to get really really good. The first few chapters of 
Refactoring hold the key insights, the rest is examples.



The Little Schemer - I am not sure about buying this - I dont know
scheme


If you want to learn functional programming, that's excellent.


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