[Csnd] Learning more Python

[Csnd] Learning more Python

Date	2013-04-17 19:22
From	Cacophony7
Subject	[Csnd] Learning more Python
	So I took a free course, "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals", on Coursera.org for 7 weeks and got 95.4%. They taught me Python 3. Then I bought their book, "Practical Programming: An introduction to computer science using Python" (1st edition), and the book wants me to download Python 2.5 but I was expecting 2.7. It's all about the PyGraphics package that I don't know much about but they use it in this book. Why doesn't PyGraphics work on 2.7? I made it to at least page 100 without running the examples on my computer. It's a good book and I'm looking forward to their 2nd edition, covering Python 3. I'm learning both Python 2 and 3 simultaneously. If there are any other books worth mentioning I'd like to hear them. I dropped out of the second course, "Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code". I only made it through the first week out of 5. After learning more Python I'll be asking more questions in regards to Csound. -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Learning-more-Python-tp5722065.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Date	2013-04-17 22:32
From	Jacob Joaquin
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Learning more Python
	Here are some things worth checking out, if you haven't already. First, try this in the python 3 interpreter: import antigravity I still read the Python style guide and Zen of Python on occasion: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ I read Python Reddit daily: http://www.reddit.com/r/python I haven't fully explored this, but did go through some of the examples, and it seems CodeAcademy looks like a great tool for learning Python: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python And I read this over and over when I first learned Python, Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Cacophony7 <michaelsparks37@gmail.com> wrote: So I took a free course, "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals", on Coursera.org for 7 weeks and got 95.4%. They taught me Python 3. Then I bought their book, "Practical Programming: An introduction to computer science using Python" (1st edition), and the book wants me to download Python 2.5 but I was expecting 2.7. It's all about the PyGraphics package that I don't know much about but they use it in this book. Why doesn't PyGraphics work on 2.7? I made it to at least page 100 without running the examples on my computer. It's a good book and I'm looking forward to their 2nd edition, covering Python 3. I'm learning both Python 2 and 3 simultaneously. If there are any other books worth mentioning I'd like to hear them. I dropped out of the second course, "Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code". I only made it through the first week out of 5. After learning more Python I'll be asking more questions in regards to Csound. -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Learning-more-Python-tp5722065.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" -- codehop.com \| #code #art #music

Date	2013-04-17 22:59
From	Rory Walsh
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Learning more Python
	I've used CodeAcademy with my students and found it very useful. We were using the javascript interface as the students had to develop a mobile web-app, but I imagine their python lessons are just as good if not better. Oh yeah, they also provide an integrated web compiler/editor which means you don't even have to bother with installing any of the languages you wish to learn. it would be nice to see them offer Csound lessons some day! On 17 April 2013 22:32, Jacob Joaquin <jacobjoaquin@gmail.com> wrote: Here are some things worth checking out, if you haven't already. First, try this in the python 3 interpreter: import antigravity I still read the Python style guide and Zen of Python on occasion: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ I read Python Reddit daily: http://www.reddit.com/r/python I haven't fully explored this, but did go through some of the examples, and it seems CodeAcademy looks like a great tool for learning Python: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python And I read this over and over when I first learned Python, Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Cacophony7 <michaelsparks37@gmail.com> wrote: So I took a free course, "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals", on Coursera.org for 7 weeks and got 95.4%. They taught me Python 3. Then I bought their book, "Practical Programming: An introduction to computer science using Python" (1st edition), and the book wants me to download Python 2.5 but I was expecting 2.7. It's all about the PyGraphics package that I don't know much about but they use it in this book. Why doesn't PyGraphics work on 2.7? I made it to at least page 100 without running the examples on my computer. It's a good book and I'm looking forward to their 2nd edition, covering Python 3. I'm learning both Python 2 and 3 simultaneously. If there are any other books worth mentioning I'd like to hear them. I dropped out of the second course, "Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code". I only made it through the first week out of 5. After learning more Python I'll be asking more questions in regards to Csound. -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Learning-more-Python-tp5722065.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" -- codehop.com \| #code #art #music

Date	2013-04-17 23:20
From	peiman khosravi
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Learning more Python
	Yes that's how I got into python. Really good lessons. P Find me here: www.peimankhosravi.co.uk On 17 April 2013 22:59, Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@ear.ie> wrote: I've used CodeAcademy with my students and found it very useful. We were using the javascript interface as the students had to develop a mobile web-app, but I imagine their python lessons are just as good if not better. Oh yeah, they also provide an integrated web compiler/editor which means you don't even have to bother with installing any of the languages you wish to learn. it would be nice to see them offer Csound lessons some day! On 17 April 2013 22:32, Jacob Joaquin <jacobjoaquin@gmail.com> wrote: Here are some things worth checking out, if you haven't already. First, try this in the python 3 interpreter: import antigravity I still read the Python style guide and Zen of Python on occasion: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ I read Python Reddit daily: http://www.reddit.com/r/python I haven't fully explored this, but did go through some of the examples, and it seems CodeAcademy looks like a great tool for learning Python: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python And I read this over and over when I first learned Python, Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python: http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Cacophony7 <michaelsparks37@gmail.com> wrote: So I took a free course, "Learn to Program: The Fundamentals", on Coursera.org for 7 weeks and got 95.4%. They taught me Python 3. Then I bought their book, "Practical Programming: An introduction to computer science using Python" (1st edition), and the book wants me to download Python 2.5 but I was expecting 2.7. It's all about the PyGraphics package that I don't know much about but they use it in this book. Why doesn't PyGraphics work on 2.7? I made it to at least page 100 without running the examples on my computer. It's a good book and I'm looking forward to their 2nd edition, covering Python 3. I'm learning both Python 2 and 3 simultaneously. If there are any other books worth mentioning I'd like to hear them. I dropped out of the second course, "Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code". I only made it through the first week out of 5. After learning more Python I'll be asking more questions in regards to Csound. -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Learning-more-Python-tp5722065.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599 Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe csound" -- codehop.com \| #code #art #music

Date	2013-04-18 01:55
From	Cacophony7
Subject	[Csnd] Re: Learning more Python
	I decided to download Python 2.5. How many Pythons can I have? I might want to reinstall 2.7 as well. Thanks for showing me Codecademy. It might come in handy. -- View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Learning-more-Python-tp5722065p5722094.html Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.