state of the serene

[serene]

Super tired (nothing new) and very low motivation to do much of anything, which works out because it's a slow day at work today.

Checked out the Python site for a while today, and most of it was gibberish. firecat may be able to help me there.

Tonight's reading should be mellow and, I hope, fun. Come!

Work is good, life is good, and I'm really eager to get some of my time back. Nine more days!

Comments

[nooks.livejournal.com]

Dive Into Python (http://diveintopython.org/getting_to_know_python/index.html) is probably a much better starting point than python.org. The link I've given skips some introductory material which I don't think you need to worry about initially.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Immediately got lost. I think I shall wait and do Python for Dummies.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, woah. That's not what I'd point someone with no programming background at first. Although I admit I can't remember if you have any or not.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Next to none. I did some BASIC in my childhood, and other than that, hand-coding HTML is the extent of my programming knowledge. I'm a complete and utter noob.

[firecat]

Dive Into Python is a good reference, I gather (I haven't gone through the whole thing myself). Also here are a couple of others you might find of interest:

http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

http://www.upriss.org.uk/python/PythonCourse.html

and some of these might be interesting to poke around in:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers?highlight=%28BeginnersGuide%2F%29