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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by VT_Drew on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:30AM (#13185756)
>Python used to be easy to learn. It isn't anymore.

Compared to C++, C# and Java, Python is still MUCH easier to learn. Python and Ruby are the easier languages to learn. I have to agree with the other commenter, why learn a toy language only to later have to learn a real one? That is a waste of time.

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Re:Advice on learning Python efficiently by mangodrunk on Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:11PM (#13187237)
Well, shouldn't it be about learning how to program. Not necessarily learning Python or Ruby? You will learn how to program with languages like Python, Ruby, Java, etc. but you will have to work with constructs/abstractions that might make sense in a professional setting but not so much in an academic setting.
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