nixCraft 🐧Jan 5, 2025
Python dominates the IT world, especially in automation and many other areas. If you ever need a quick boost to your resume and job profile, try to master it. It's not perfect, but it gets the job done. Python is in demand for everything from writing web apps to IT infrastructure and more. The best part? It is easy to learn. It is the new basic.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistJan 5, 2025

@nixCraft

Python is actually pretty elegant as computer languages go. I highly recommend "fluent python" if you already know a few programming languages and want to learn to love python. It's also a good book if you have a good understanding of the basics of just python, but want to get a better understanding of WHY the language is the way that it is.

This book also helped me to begin to appreciate the architecture and design of programming languages in general for the first time.

Show threadPrairie_DogJan 5, 2025
@futurebird @nixCraft As a biologist, I have to ask why the heck there is a lizard pictured on the cover of the book when a python is a snake? Is this some type of inside joke?
Show threadKumar McMillanJan 5, 2025

@digitalrodent @futurebird @nixCraft the name Python is pretty arbitrary. Maybe they didn’t want to make a literal connection.

The inventor of Python is the most chill Dutch guy ever and it’s one of my all time favorite languages but calling it Python? Really? Worst name ever. I don’t think he did it from a place of heavy bro / toxic masculinity. That’s what it sounds like nowadays, though.

Show threadDan Neuman 🇨🇦
@kumarvibe @digitalrodent @futurebird @nixCraft He loved Monty Python. It's similar to how we are on Mastodon.
Jan 5, 2025 at 2:58pmWeb
Show threadKumar McMillanJan 5, 2025

@dan613 @digitalrodent @futurebird @nixCraft oh, ha, I forgot about that. Monty would have been a better name for the language 😅

Fun fact: Python.com was not available when they first hyped the language (it was an adult site).