HeySal - Here's a course for you...

by Sumit Menon

Posted: 12 years ago 6 replies

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For all your whining about not being a techie

, here you go -

https://www.coursera.org/course/pythonlearn

Programming for everybody. Could not have been more appropriately titled. It's free, btw.

Sumit.

HeySal

12 years ago

Sumit -- you've been such a good friend over the years. Why do you insist on me making myself that miserable?

I really, really, really don't want to be a techie. Really. It would drive me batshyte nuts to do that stuff. Logical quantums, fine - morphological breakdown of a dead language - okay. But CODING?

Augh.

Seriously - I have two hours to get done what I need to (and want to) online, then I'll be taking off for a world without computers for 3 days to go find wonderstone and the elusive Nevada blue agate. I promise I'll at least look at the link and get a rough idea at any rate. I actually do know some HTML and BBC, you know, so I'm not at complete scratch on this one. I just didn't go far enough to do things like CSS. I can post a pic, I can alter text, etc. If I don't use a code a lot I forget most of them - but still know a few that allow me to do minor stuff that I have to take care of on my lonesome once in awhile.

I just don't like it enough to become a whiz at it. To me it's kinda like accounting. I cannot even imagine sitting and doing accounting for long periods of time.

I can tell you are into it enough to really want me to find something interesting about it, though - so I will look at the link and probably bookmark it just in case I ever actually have to look the stuff up and learn some of it. I'm sure it's not that hard, mostly memory.

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kenmichaels

12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I can tell you are into it enough to really want me to find something interesting about it, though - so I will look at the link and probably bookmark it just in case I ever actually have to look the stuff up and learn some of it. I'm sure it's not that hard, mostly memory.

He only want you to do it, because he knows you would be good at it.

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HeySal 12 years ago

Originally Posted by kenmichaels

He only want you to do it, because he knows you would be good at it.

I know. I adore Sumit. He's really an exceptionally sharp kid...well, I guess getting too old now to call a kid anymore, but he's an extremely bright young guy. Friends always like friends to be interested in their own fields that thrill them. If anyone can entice me to learn even a tad of this disgusting stuff - it's Sumit.
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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Sumit, or Ken, do either of you program in Python? What kind of stuff can you do with it?

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Sumit Menon

12 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Sumit -- you've been such a good friend over the years. Why do you insist on me making myself that miserable?

I really, really, really don't want to be a techie. Really. It would drive me batshyte nuts to do that stuff. Logical quantums, fine - morphological breakdown of a dead language - okay. But CODING?

I was looking for interesting courses to do on Coursera when I stumbled upon this. Then I thought of you.

You learn to code to pick up the skill. I went to a summit the other day and there this guy from England spoke. He worked for a company that developed a programmable toy. I'm assuming a lot of people are working to come up with programmable devices. I predict that soon, programming would be an essential skill to know, like writing.

Now you don't learn to write because you want to be as good as Stephen King. You don't have to be THAT good. You just have to be decent enough to get by.

HTML/CSS isn't a programming language, btw.

Programming is a whole different paradigm.

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Sumit, or Ken, do either of you program in Python? What kind of stuff can you do with it?

I can't program in Python. I've always wanted to learn but never got the time for it. It's a very powerful language and easy to pick up it seems.

You could do a lot of stuff with it (Google was written in Python). You can build web apps with Python/Django, you could do a lot of scripting for Linux, build crawlers etc. I am sure there is a workaround for doing pretty much anything in the language.

Sumit.