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 threadDanJan 5, 2025

@digitalrodent @futurebird @nixCraft O'Reilly publishes a series of technical/instructional/reference books. for probably 30+ years the visual theme is a colorful, bold, legible title and artwork of an animal. there are about 1400.

https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp

Animal Menagerie - O'Reilly Media

What's that animal on the front of your O'Reilly book? You'll find it listed here.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistJan 5, 2025

@dank @digitalrodent @nixCraft

So many wonderful animals but there's only one cover with ants. Honeypot ants.

But it's a rare cover with a serious biological error. In honeypot ants the repletes, the ants with distended gasters full of nectar, do not exit the nest. They can hardly walk. The ants that you might find on leaves of these species look ordinary, their grape-like sisters stay underground.

We deserve a revised cover... and also MORE covers with more ants!

Show threadJocelynephiliac Jan 5, 2025
@futurebird and this is what they used to represent machine learning? thats kinda hilarious
Show threadmyrmepropagandist

@twipped

I'm so bothered by the idea of the poor helpless repletes stranded exposed on a leaf... like treats waiting for a passing bird! It's horrible!

IDK if this is ML's fault... but I've never seen an error like this on any of the other covers.

Jan 5, 2025 at 11:15pmWeb