Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 06:45, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:42:19 +1200, dn > declaimed the following: > > >TSRs? Now that was an ugly period of history! (trying to make a > >single-process operating system do multi-processing - only to find that > >many program[me]s assumed

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, 10 Sept 2022 at 06:38, Greg Ewing wrote: > > On 8/09/22 6:57 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Not as detrimental as starting with BASIC, and then moving on to x86 > > assembly language, and trying to massage the two together using CALL > > ABSOLUTE in order to get mouse input in your GW-BASIC

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-09 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 07:42:19 +1200, dn declaimed the following: >TSRs? Now that was an ugly period of history! (trying to make a >single-process operating system do multi-processing - only to find that >many program[me]s assumed they had full use and undisputed control of >the computer. Happy days

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-09 Thread Meredith Montgomery
writes: > Maybe we should ask WHY the person asking the question about how to learn a > computer language called Python is pairing it with the idea of whether to > also learn C. Excellent point! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-09 Thread Greg Ewing
On 8/09/22 6:57 am, Chris Angelico wrote: Not as detrimental as starting with BASIC, and then moving on to x86 assembly language, and trying to massage the two together using CALL ABSOLUTE in order to get mouse input in your GW-BASIC programs. Or starting with hand-assembled SC/MP machine code

RE: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread avi.e.gross
bject: Re: Question about learning Python On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 01:50, Maruful Islam wrote: > >> > >> I want to start learning python. I have a question about learn

RE: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread avi.e.gross
in C but can be done much nicer using Python costructs. -Original Message- From: Python-list On Behalf Of Meredith Montgomery Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 3:35 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Question about learning Python Maruful Islam writes: > I want to st

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Meredith Montgomery
Maruful Islam writes: > I want to start learning python. I have a question about learning python. > > Is learning C essential or not for learning python? Surely not necessary. There's a generous recent thread about books on Python. Have a look at it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread dn
On 08/09/2022 07.15, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 05:09, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards >>> wrote: >>> If you're a beginning programmer, then IMO learning C first is probably detrimental

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 05:09, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards > > wrote: > > > >> If you're a beginning programmer, then IMO learning C first is > >> probably detrimental. [...] > > > > Not as detrimental as starting

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> If you're a beginning programmer, then IMO learning C first is >> probably detrimental. [...] > > Not as detrimental as starting with BASIC, and then moving on to x86 > assembly language, and trying to

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 04:54, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 01:50, Maruful Islam wrote: > >> > >> I want to start learning python. I have a question about learning python. > >> > >> Is learning C essential or not for learning python? > >

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-09-07, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 01:50, Maruful Islam wrote: >> >> I want to start learning python. I have a question about learning python. >> >> Is learning C essential or not for learning python? > > Absolutely not essential. In fact, I would strongly recommend lea

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 01:50, Maruful Islam wrote: > > I want to start learning python. I have a question about learning python. > > Is learning C essential or not for learning python? Absolutely not essential. In fact, I would strongly recommend learning Python before ever picking up C, as it's

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Thomas Passin
On 9/7/2022 6:28 AM, Maruful Islam wrote: I want to start learning python. I have a question about learning python. Is learning C essential or not for learning python? Not at all. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Lars Liedtke
Hello and welcome, the answer is a definitive "it depends" ;-) Generally you do not need knowledge in C for learning Python. But I'd say that it will not hurt to have some knowledge. Especially some packages use C-code to extend Python. But it seems to me that you are completely starting to l

Re: Question about learning Python

2022-09-07 Thread Sandro Volery
Hey Maruf > I want to start learning python. Good for you! Fun times ahead. > Is learning C essential or not for learning python? No, I would not say that learning C is essential for learning Python. However, C can serve as a great set of fundamentials in programming and understanding machines