From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way

Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by dimino on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:35PM (#13274889)

I've said this before, but Python is dangerous in this way. You can learn how to write an executable Python script in a few hours, which if you do this for a few years, you might be convinced you're "fluent" in Python, when in reality you know nothing about how to build and deliver quality software.

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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by type0 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:38AM (#13276476)

Sound like Java also. Python is fairly easy to at least learn the basics of how its cogs are spinning. I'm not saying it can't happen in Python but to me it seems that it happens more often in Java community.

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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by dimino on Friday December 30, 2016 @01:21AM (#13282902)

That's completely backwards, Python bills itself as the "scripting" language, whereas Java has a reputation for enterprise, and also has... more static typing and more general verbosity.

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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by LyndsySimon on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:04AM (#13276225)

I see where you're coming from, but in practice I've been a Python developer for a decade and have never encountered this.

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Re:From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way by dimino on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:53PM (#13280041)

You can even see it in Python standard libraries, just look at argparse vs. click.

click is a modern Python library. argparse is not.

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