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Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Python fast?

8 points·by deathofsocrates·vor 5 Jahren·10 comments

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deathofsocrates
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
there are lots of buzz words here that'll take interest from many roles, many tools and modern tech being mentioned, however, the website has no clear information: I cannot find page that lists your features, no documentation or demo videos. At least a white paper would be good. Not everyone would like to login and dive in with their emails.
deathofsocrates
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
I don't know how many times we need to see a post about this book. I read it. People read it. its in bookshelves of zoom meetings, its in blog posts, websites, there are summaries, audio versions, youtube videos... basically everywhere. enough is enough. Yes, its an okay book, its fine. Obvious facts put in words properly. if you can apply it, you obviously didn't need this book in the first place anyway.
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
it is highly dependent on the engineering practices applied and the team structure as well. i'd suggest to check the team topologies book by Matthew Skeleton which suggests to form teams according to the software architecture instead of business needs. The "release often and small", "go with microservices", "independent release cycles" and many other things coming from different needs either derived by the competency in market or the buzz words are either not applied properly or the engineering managers are not able to see that the underlying/existing structure requires changes before you go down those roads. I also think the test automation practices are not well adapted/applied generally because the innovations in that area are massive lately. So its rather a principle and angle than it has anything to do with the codebase or the number of people working on a project. Generally i do not agree that it is decreasing but maybe most of those big projects may need more time to adapt the industrial changes or maybe they will vanish in time anyway because of their competitors are eventually do a better job on the long run.
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
thank you!
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
my first surprise was that the indentation actually matters. this is a great language. im disappointed that I've not explored Python before the other languages. Sadly the work environment was not friendly for this language for me so far.
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
modern python. thank you for the links!
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
after few days of research that seems to be the right source indeed. very well structured.
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Interesting. I liked your angle on this. Just to add more on it: it is a high chance that we are some sort of a fish in an aquarium. its a vast universe for us but we might not be more than a family of bacterias on a random rock in a tank thats filled with void.
deathofsocrates
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Atheism. downright non-believer. Grew up by a deist family. they were not really religious. I do remember hearing praying every now and then from my childhood but it was not something that's reflected to me as important part of life. Later on met lots of religious people but did not find them interesting. After learning more about science and technology, the unresolved facts started to disturb me while I was still young. Later in life started being interested in philosophy and learned that i need to learn more about the things that i disagree. hence end up reading most of the holy books, found them close to reading LOTR. My thoughts on spiritual practice? Religion is required for most of the people because it is a meditation and a safe bay for the minds that are unable to bear the hard facts in this universe. I find it very stupid and inefficient for humanity to spend so much resources on it but I do not disrespect the religious community except the extremists and the people who's life's meaning is religion. I also believe that the majority of people are belong to a religion because they don't want to be seen as an outsider or due to their social state or job etc. Or probably because it's been an important part of their family. because it is very hard to unsee the cruel world and fool yourself with religion. "Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy."