New language to take on!

Anyone done any Python before?

Im hopefully gonna take my knowledge into designing software for the XO Laptop...

Maybe even start writing game scripts. Didya know Civilizationn IV was coded using Python?

I learned a bit of Python a while ago; never really felt like getting good at it, though.

Ah, I see. I like it because its an easy language to pick up. I've been at it for a few hours, and Im already doing some GUI work. I intend on getting into the SQL aspect soon..

Posted By Cryhavoc_ on 10th Feb 08 at 1:09am

 

Ah, I see. I like it because its an easy language to pick up. I've been at it for a few hours, and Im already doing some GUI work. I intend on getting into the SQL aspect soon..

It is a fairly simple language to get the hang of as opposed to some others, yes. I'm not sure why, but I didn't really have any motivation for learning it. Yes, I wanted to learn to develop software, but Python just didn't feel like the language I wanted to do it in, I suppose.

Its definitely not as powerful as, say, C++ or even C#, but what I like is the flexibility of it. I'm using it to create a software for the XO, and using PyGTK and Gecko 1.9, I've already setup a network connection. So I like that about it.

But obviously I don't intend on creating an MMORPG with Python.

I wrote a chat client in it at one point. A really cool OOP language, IMHO. Very good for offering cross-OS support.

~Artemis