I would say it's a little bit more:
You have to know the keywords and (basic) concepts, e.g. you really have
to understand what it means, that everything is a class.
If you get foreign, you have to be able to understand it. And the other
way round, given a problem, you should be able to write a
On Friday, September 20, 2013 5:58:00 AM UTC-4, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
> documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
> that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
Seems to me a fuzzy bou
On Sunday 22 September 2013 23:41:10 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 14:55:24 -0400, Gene Heskett
>
> declaimed the following:
> >Then it seems to me that work in the direction should be an active
> >feature request. Unforch, as I've said before, I'm rowing this barge
> >with
On Sunday 22 September 2013 15:46:52 Gene Heskett did opine:
> On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine:
> > On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett
> >
> > declaimed the following:
> > >I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux,
> > >and
On Sunday 22 September 2013 14:49:21 Dennis Lee Bieber did opine:
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett
>
> declaimed the following:
> >I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux, and
> >for about 10 minutes thought I could make use of the library of ARexx
> >
On Saturday 21 September 2013 01:34:50 Chris Angelico did opine:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal
wrote:
> > On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico
wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal
wrote:
> >> > I hope that cleared some confu
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article ,
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
>> > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to
>> > gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not.
>>
>> Well, b
In article ,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to
> > gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not.
>
> Well, based on my definition, that's easy to answer. Have you solve
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
>> > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to
>> > gauge myself to find if I
On 9/20/2013 5:58 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the
minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
I come from a C background which is comparatively small
I understand that being able to solve problems and knowing when to use
something is the final measure of knowing something properly.
But I wanted to find something quantitative that I can use to measure myself.
Like the interview questions that Tim Chase posted.
Measuring myself based on the p
On Friday, September 20, 2013 10:04:32 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> > I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to
> > gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not.
>
> Well, based on my definition, t
I think it is a philosophical question. It's like saying "I know maths",
which is a ridiculous phrase I was surprised to hear, let alone
surprised to hear often.
Can someone know everything there is to know about something ? I doubt
it. The point, at least for me, isn't to know everything .. B
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
> documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
> that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
Interesting. I would say that you must know the keywords, how to make
a Class, how to writ
By C being smaller than Python I did not mean the scope of C is lesser than
Python. I simply meant that the standard libraries are less in number compared
to Python.
By knowing Python I didn't imply an expert-level understanding. Minimum that so
someone cannot say "Hey, you said you knew Python
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I hope that cleared some confusion about what I wanted to ask. I wanted to
> gauge myself to find if I am progressing or not.
Well, based on my definition, that's easy to answer. Have you solved
problems using Python? If you have a bunch of
On Friday, September 20, 2013 7:09:13 PM UTC+5:30, Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2013-09-20 12:43, rusi wrote:
> > Stroustrup says he is still learning C++ and I know kids who have no qualms
> > saying they know programming language L (for various values of L) after
> > hardly an hour or two of mostly
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
> documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
> that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
>
> I come from a C background which i
On 2013-09-20 12:43, rusi wrote:
On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote:
I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
that I must know before I can say that I know
On 2013-09-20 02:58, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of
> Python documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what
> is the minimum that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
It's a fuzzy line. A good while back, there was a t
On Friday, September 20, 2013 3:28:00 PM UTC+5:30, Aseem Bansal wrote:
> I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
> documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
> that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
>
>
>
> I come fro
I started Python 4 months ago. Largely self-study with use of Python
documentation, stackoverflow and google. I was thinking what is the minimum
that I must know before I can say that I know Python?
I come from a C background which is comparatively smaller. But as Python is
comparatively much l
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