Re: request for guidance

2013-12-19 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> I am a novice who is really interested in contributing to Python > projects. How and where do I begin? You're looking for work? Try: https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonProjects http://www.python.org/about/apps/ https://wiki.python.org/moin/Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pyth

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-14 Thread rusi
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:41:09 AM UTC+5:30, David Hutto wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean reinventing the wheel is a bad > thing, just that once you get the hang of things, you need to > display some creativity in your work to set yourself apart from the > rest. > Nowadays, ever

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:36 PM, rusi wrote: > For the young-n-enthu "Make haste slowly!" is usually good advice As the Ancient Romans said, "festina lente". ChrisA [1] http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/iolanthe/web_op/iol13.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread rusi
On Saturday, December 14, 2013 10:41:09 AM UTC+5:30, David Hutto wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean reinventing the wheel is a bad thing, just > that once you get the hang of things, you need to display some creativity in > your work to set yourself apart from the rest. > Nowadays, everyo

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread David Hutto
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean reinventing the wheel is a bad thing, just that once you get the hang of things, you need to display some creativity in your work to set yourself apart from the rest. Nowadays, everyone's a programmer. If it weren't for reinventing the wheel, then we wouldn't hav

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, David Hutto wrote: > In my opinion, a novice always tries to reinvent the wheel. Take for example > a simple text editor. Which isn't a bad thing. Especially in that particular case, it's good to try your hand at writing a text editor - most of the hard grunt-work

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread David Hutto
In my opinion, a novice always tries to reinvent the wheel. Take for example a simple text editor. But I would go with something that shows your creativity...like a game. It's not just about code, but graphics/enhancements, and other evolutions of the open source nature of programming. On Fri,

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread jennifer stone
hello! thanks a ton for your warm response. I know the basics of python with some modules like pickle, urllib, re. Its kind of basic I know. but it gotta start somewhere and I really want to have real world experience. thanks jennifer On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:45 AM, jennifer stone wrote: > gre

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread rusi
On Friday, December 13, 2013 10:45:22 AM UTC+5:30, jennifer stone wrote: > greetings > I am a novice who is really interested in contributing to Python > projects. How and where do I begin? Good to see new names! How much python do you know/studied/coded? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/list

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread Zachary Ware
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:15 PM, jennifer stone wrote: > greetings > I am a novice who is really interested in contributing to Python projects. > How and where do I begin? > thanking you in anticipation If you're interested in contributing to Python itself, you can consult the Python devguide [1

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread Veritatem Ignotam
I read 'Beginning Python 2.6 and 3.1' by James Payne. It was pretty good. Code Academy has a python course. http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python I've never done it but it might be good Cheers, V.I. On 12/12/2013 11:15 PM, jennifer stone wrote: > greetings > I am a novice who is really intere

Re: request for guidance

2013-12-13 Thread Ned Batchelder
On Friday, December 13, 2013 12:15:22 AM UTC-5, jennifer stone wrote: > greetings > I am a novice who is really interested in contributing to Python projects. > How and where do I begin? > > thanking you in anticipation Jennifer, hi, welcome! If you are looking for help with the mechanics of op

request for guidance

2013-12-12 Thread jennifer stone
greetings I am a novice who is really interested in contributing to Python projects. How and where do I begin? thanking you in anticipation -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list