Cumber

About to run out the door for my first day of work. More later!

Well, I’m through the lessons I downloaded (aside from correcting the last couple of lots of exercises). Yay me!

Now I need to make a start on finding reliable ways to increase my vocab further. And learn to write Quenya using Tengwar. And…

I have a job interview today, for a position I think I will really like (games programmer, with a company working on a successor to a game I already own and like). This game is programmed almost entirely in Python, which I didn’t (as of two days ago) know any of. The job ad did list familiarity with Python as a significant advantage, rather than a must-have skill, and they did grant me an interview so I’m hoping I can work around it. paws crossed

But this is making me realise I should get off my lazy tail and teach myself Python, whether or not this job pans out. I’ve been meaning to for ages anyway.

So a couple of days ago (when I applied for this job – that was a FAST callback) I found (through 43things actually, thank you very much wintermute1974) a nice free introductory textbook on it, and have read about half of it. It’s also an introductory textbook on programming as a whole, which is why I’m ripping through it at the speed something fast, but it is good. I now at least know the feel of the language, and most of the basic syntax. Of course the hard bit is still to come: learning all the standard library functions so I can program without looking stuff up every 2 lines of code.

And hey, as far as the interview is concerned I’ve turned “I don’t know Python but I’m willing to learn” into “I’m currently teaching myself Python”. paws crossed again