Google's Python Class

Re:Google's Python Class by fermienrico on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:16PM (#16531715)

I disagree. 5 mins of work to install a new programming language impacts so much of what you do with that language and how you would deploy it in production environment. As the GP says - Python 3 is the future.

By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows.

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Re:Google's Python Class by cryptoz on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:29PM (#16531848)

> and how you would deploy it in production environment

We're talking about learning a new language, not deploying to production.

> By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows.

No, that's not what anybody said. This is about learning languages, not even using them. Using a language is different from learning a language in so many ways they aren't even comparable.

Millions of people could be learning a language for millions of reasons. Simple portability is useful - knowing a language that is preinstalled on a huge portion of computers worldwide has massive advantages for a huge number of people who are learning new languages today.

Dismissing the values that others might place in how they learn a language is being close-minded. There are lots of reasons to learn to program, and learning based on the language available to you first and most readily is certainly a reasonable approach.

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Re:Google's Python Class by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:20PM (#16531772)

> By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows

But, if you know nothing about the web and are just learning, and you've got a Windows machine, sure, use IE (or Edge, if it's Windows 10.)

Just like if you are starting from zero programming, and self-teaching, sure, use whatever is available in the base install of your OS.

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Re:Google's Python Class by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:22PM (#16531788)

5 minutes for you is not 5 minutes for someone new.

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Re:Google's Python Class by fermienrico on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:38PM (#16532332)

Could you please explain why? I am curious what are some of the roadblocks in installing Python 3 for a newbie?

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Re:Google's Python Class by CJefferson on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:04AM (#16536835)

Last time I tried to install python3 and pip on a Mac without root, I tried following 2 guides from the internet, both gave weird errors, and I gave up.

My "give up" was just install as root, system wide, but that's only because I have root access to my machine.

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