Python is what got me into programming and I still haven’t found anything that I could feel so strongly about.
When I started my CS course all I knew was turbo pascal and some html then college came and our course was fully designed around java — it drove me crazy. The first lesson we wrote hello world with a bunch of filler: “public, void, static, main” and nothing was explain “you’ll learn that later”.
Suddenly my perception of programming was turned around 180°. Going from solving various algorithmic problems in turbo pascal to mystery black box that was Java.
Anyway I struggled through the first year and almost felt like dropping out because programming was just not fun. I kinda got a bit of second wind and went to the webs to do some research — there has to be more to programming than this mess. And that’s how I found Python, lots of people recommended it and I was kinda blown away when I opened python IDLE and it allowed me to run code there instantly. Everything just work so smoothly - so much space for experimenting and learning and the community was really welcoming (irc, stackoverflow), and there were so many free resources to follow. It was brilliant re-awakening. Been programming in Python ever since and I still think it’s the best language out there :)
Python is what got me into programming and I still haven’t found anything that I could feel so strongly about.
When I started my CS course all I knew was turbo pascal and some html then college came and our course was fully designed around java — it drove me crazy. The first lesson we wrote hello world with a bunch of filler: “public, void, static, main” and nothing was explain “you’ll learn that later”.
Suddenly my perception of programming was turned around 180°. Going from solving various algorithmic problems in turbo pascal to mystery black box that was Java.
Anyway I struggled through the first year and almost felt like dropping out because programming was just not fun. I kinda got a bit of second wind and went to the webs to do some research — there has to be more to programming than this mess. And that’s how I found Python, lots of people recommended it and I was kinda blown away when I opened python IDLE and it allowed me to run code there instantly. Everything just work so smoothly - so much space for experimenting and learning and the community was really welcoming (irc, stackoverflow), and there were so many free resources to follow. It was brilliant re-awakening. Been programming in Python ever since and I still think it’s the best language out there :)