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Has the programming language changed from C# to Python this year? Is there a particular reason for this?
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08-06-2010 at 08:23 PM
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Email "FARMER, WM or SMITH, S" and ask them.
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08-06-2010 at 10:13 PM
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Ya, I just had an interview to be a TA for that course today. It's definitely changing to Python.
The reason is because C# is pretty intimidating for brand new programmers (the interface has over 9000 buttons and menus), and throws them into object-oriented programming prematurely.
Most python editors are pretty much just slightly glorified text editors. Python also has an interpreter, which makes it far easier to show off the practicality and usefulness of programming to new engineers.
I think it was a good decision to switch to it.
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08-06-2010 at 10:22 PM
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And Python is everywhere. It can be used as a MatLab replacement, as a backbone behind many websites, including many of Google's and Youtube, and many, many other cool things like Nodebox and easy game creation with PyGame and Pyglet.
I looooove Python.
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08-06-2010 at 11:11 PM
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Yeah you should be getting something about it in the mail soon. I got it today but i just read the first line saying its swicthed and put it away to read later.
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What they switched to python? Why? Yup now there is no way I will get the TA job. Blah!
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What they switched to python? Why? Yup now there is no way I will get the TA job. Blah!
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I second this BLAH sentiment. And seeing as interviews already started, FFFFFFFUUUUUU
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If you're a competent programmer who knows the fundamentals, transferring your skills into Python isn't difficult.
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If you're a competent programmer who knows the fundamentals, transferring your skills into Python isn't difficult.
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Ya, Python is one of the highest level programming languages you can find. You can pretty much guess the syntax sometimes and be right :p.
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Ya, Python is one of the highest level programming languages you can find. You can pretty much guess the syntax sometimes and be right :p.
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that sounds nice. anyone know the text we will be using ? |
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08-08-2010 at 12:46 AM
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Here it is. Now lets see if we can find a PDF 
EDIT: Found it on demonoid.com, but you didn't hear that from me .
EDIT 2: I'm just gonna leave this here...
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Why did I stop learning Python? And I only had the basics down too. Maybe I can restart ...
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They should have switched to OCaml. Really enjoyed learning that great language! 
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They should have switched to OCaml. Really enjoyed learning that great language! |
That may be so, but Python is less intimidating (of course, my esteemed opinion). Plus, I know there are some really great tutorials out there for Python which walk you through from a complete newbie to an intermediate, more or less.
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Here it is. Now lets see if we can find a PDF
EDIT: Found it on demonoid.com, but you didn't hear that from me .
EDIT 2: I'm just gonna leave this here...
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I'm disappointed. It's from 2003, and it uses 2.3. Currently, the version is 2.7/3.1. A lot of new things have been added since then.
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