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Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr » Mon, Aug 15, 2011, 2:59 AM UTC

yoklov wrote: post #10

Is it true that Python has dynamic scoping? I would have thought that it was lexical...

Ah, you are correct, Python scoping is lexical. The point I wanted to make was more about no pre-declaration and I mixed up what I was trying to say.

Thanks for pointing that out, it's now corrected :)

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by xiii » Mon, Aug 15, 2011, 3:46 AM UTC

Awesome. Thank you. Any chance of a Ruby version?

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by grncdr » Mon, Aug 15, 2011, 4:06 AM UTC

xiii wrote: post #12

Awesome. Thank you. Any chance of a Ruby version?

Not really as I don't write enough Ruby to feel comfortable teaching it. If any Rubyist out there wants to steal this format and approach I would happily link to (and use!) it.

Source files are all available at *.rst and there is a Makefile at stephensugden.com/crash_into_python/Makefile as well.

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by alagu » Mon, Aug 15, 2011, 7:31 AM UTC

>...teaching aid for bringing programmers from other languages up to speed with Python.

Off-Topic, is there anything similar for people wanting to learn Objective C?

Re: Show HN: Crash into Python

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Post by mise » Mon, Aug 15, 2011, 1:25 PM UTC

The strength of this is precisely that it's a crash course.

I've tried some recommended Python tutorials (couldn't name any of them), and they try to cover everything. For example, instead of showing all the useful stuff across all categories, they try to teach you every exception and technical detail for the entire category (string manipulation, for example).