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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:52:45 No.7619380 View Reply Report Delete

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Any good resources for learning Python?

first year maths UG here with no prior programming experience, so far I suck at it. Any good books or online help would be greatly appreciated

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:55:02 No.7619388 Report Delete

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>>7619380
"Learning Python the Hard way" is bretty good

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:55:43 No.7619389 Report Delete

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>>7619380
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Programming_Textbook_Recommendations#Python

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:57:51 No.7619390 Report Delete

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>>7619388
this is great
used it to learn Ruby (with a Java background) and it's great, can recommend

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:01:04 No.7619398 Report Delete

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>>7619380
>no prior programming experience
don't start with python, it will fuck up your brain if it's your first language.

start with C, it's very explicit and the language does hardly anything behind your back. don't expect to write anything complicated in it though, just simple console programs and things like that.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:03:54 No.7619407 Report Delete

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>>7619398
Its what they're teaching us, I didnt choose it.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:09:29 No.7619419 Report Delete

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introduction to interactive programming on coursera

they hit you with some cringeworthy tryhard attempt at humor at the very start but try to ignore it, they are smart guys and their course is great - best way to get into programming

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:09:50 No.7619420 Report Delete

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>>7619398

This but use C++11 instead of C.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:12:31 No.7619426 Report Delete

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>>7619420
as i said, i'm learning python because my university picked it, maybe if I really get into programming i'll look at other languages, but right now i'm learning to pass the course

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:13:36 No.7619429 Report Delete

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>write pseudocode
>you now have a functioning Python program

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:13:37 No.7619430 Report Delete

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>>7619420
this guy wants you to kill yourself don't even touch C++ until you've been programming for at least half a year

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:15:36 No.7619439 Report Delete

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here you go OP:
>https://www.udemy.com/automate/learn/#/

The author of the book and this course posted on /r/learnpython and gave it out for free if you sign up, I did, don't know if it's still free though. But the book is free and called Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. It's a way more hands on approach to learning Python:
>https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

I'm doing this

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:19:32 No.7619447 Report Delete

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>>7619426
then it sounds like you don't need much but basic syntax, just go to codecademy for that:

>https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 15:31:44 No.7619472 Report Delete

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>>7619430
>repeating memes
>never coded in C++

There is no added difficulty in starting in C++ over C and there are numerous benefits from the parts C++ fixes in C.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 18:19:20 No.7619872 Report Delete

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>>7619439
>tfw looking like pepe

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 18:20:38 No.7619876 Report Delete

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>>7619872
>tfw never hacked the planet

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:42:12 No.7620018 Report Delete

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"The hard way" series are utter shit.

Get Learning Python from O'Reilly, its by far the best introduction.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:46:13 No.7620024 Report Delete

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learn programming first

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:47:07 No.7620025 Report Delete

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C. Its the language every other language has mimic since the creation of C. But if you're trying to go into hard CS, this babby teir programming languages are useless. You need to learn pure math and the programming languages that accompany hard CS. /g/ is filled with a bunch of retards who don't understand a thing about computers or understand why their programs work or not.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:09:45 No.7620067 Report Delete

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>>7620025
>undergrad CS
>Hard

top kek

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:20:36 No.7620080 Report Delete

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>>7620067
I didn't say CS was hard at the undergrad level. I said HARD CS. As in machine learning, AI, ANN, etc. Not mobile apps or games. As most CS grads going into these days. Hard CS helps science not consumer economy. Also fuck off.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:38:45 No.7620110 Report Delete

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>>7620080
Am I justified in my hatred of Java? Comp sci freshman here.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:39:21 No.7620111 Report Delete

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>>7620110
everyone is.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 21:31:05 No.7620200 Report Delete

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>>7620110
JAVA is completely shit. Its only loved because its cheap to use and implement. Don't go mobile apps anon, RUNNNNN. Learn math and go on and develop an ANN to develop better drugs or create a machine learning algo for facial recongtion. The big things.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 22:55:38 No.7620395 Report Delete

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>>7619388
Can recommend this also.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:27:44 No.7620439 Report Delete

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Automate the Boring Stuff with Python has been great.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 23:31:01 No.7620443 Report Delete

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>>7620110
if you say java on /g/ you will get killed

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