Friday, March 14, 2014

Finally Finished Exercise 37

I am a little angry at Zed for dumping me off in the deep end.

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex37.html

Exercise 37 has you look up 31 keywords. Explain how they are used, and then write a little code demonstrating how it works. That's a lot of work and maybe 13 of those keywords I never encountered nor were they explained in the book. It was like good luck figuring this stuff out.

At first I was thinking hey this is great I'll go look all this stuff up and really learn a lot. I did learn a lot. I'm glad I went through it. But by the time I finished the exercise I was a little ticked off. :)

I did find that I got a lot of good information out of the following places.

Python For Kids: A lot of really clear examples. The only problem is they don't go into some of the more advanced stuff.

Real Python: Really well presented information on the topics. Explanations and examples from this book is what got me a little irritated with Zed for leaving me out in the weeds.

Writing Idiomatic Python: Again some really great and well thought out examples to help get your head around the correct way to write Python. Not everything was covered in this book but what I did find was very helpful.

The main websites I used were:
TutorialsPoint
The Official Python Documentation
The Official Python Tutorial

Also pydoc keyword in a terminal window had a lot to offer.

Man I hope exercise 38 is a little more forgiving.
--Steve




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