Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-26 Thread Schneider
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-23 Thread CM
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-22 Thread Gene Heskett
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 > >

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Roy Smith
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Terry Reedy
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Janssen
> 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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread rusi
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Robert Kern
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Tim Chase
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

Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread rusi
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

What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

2013-09-20 Thread Aseem Bansal
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