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My Notes On Learning Python Coming From Perl
Posted by Artem Russakovskii on October 9th, 2008 in Programming
Updated: January 2nd, 2017
I’m learning Python. Since I’m currently primarily a Perl coder, I decided it’d be a good idea to post and keep track of my experiences coming from heavy Perl. I have a few reasons for learning Python, which are:
- to see what else is out there and broaden my horizons.
- to keep my brain active by feeding it new tasty information every day.
- to become a more valuable employee and potential future candidate.
- to learn a new language, especially one used by giants like Google.
- to learn a new OO language, as I’m tired of Perl’s hacky OO.
- to build GUI applications. GUI in Perl is a big pain. I’ll see about Python.
So, without further ado, here are the …
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