python

[James Dugger]

If you are new to programming look at
"Head First Programming: A learner 's guide to programming using the Python
language" by David Griffiths and Paul Barry.

The Head First books take a different approach to learning.  I gave this
book to my 10 year old son who used it to learn programming and Python.
On Apr 5, 2015 12:24 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> No problem. I am doing it (badly) "... the hard way."
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:21 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> sorry for not responding sooner, michael.  everyone learns in their own
>> way.  if a course is not for you, I can at least point you at how I pick up
>> new languages.  what works for me is the old "scratch an itch" process.
>>  find something that you want to do, and do it with a language.  start
>> small, maybe checking your email or twitter.  it's a matter of getting some
>> inertia behind you.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Please expand. How would you recommend I go about to learn this (not in
>>> a formal setting)? I can not afford to take classes and because of a head
>>> injury doubt I could complete it successfully anyways.
>>>
>>> In your list I notice you do not mention learning any programming
>>> language. Why is that?
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "OS shell integration"?  Is that saying I need to
>>> learn BASH as opposed to Python?
>>>
>>> "string operations must mean BASH....
>>>
>>> when you say "regular expressions"  is this a good resource here
>>> <http://www.aboutlinux.info/2006/01/learn-how-to-use-regular-expressions.html>?
>>> Would I use this with BASH or Python or both?
>>>
>>> I notice that in http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ there is a section
>>> that covers using Python with websites so handling and forming automated
>>> web requests is probably covered in more advanced  Python tutorials.
>>>
>>> So to sum it up I think I need to learn Python and BASH. Is this
>>> correct? I also need to learn XML,  JSON  (what do you mean when you say
>>> "from xml.dom import minidom ; import json") and SQL
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>
>>> For all the pen testing and hacker stuff I went through (7 some odd
>>> years ago), here's what you'll want to know how to do, in approximate order
>>> of priority:
>>>
>>> xml and json parsing (from xml.dom import minidom ; import json)
>>> connecting to and using a database (learn enough SQL to be able to
>>> navigate around one here too), learning sqlalchemy will be enough to land
>>> you a job in the field
>>> OS shell integration (import os)
>>> string operations
>>> regular expressions (import re)
>>> handling and forming automated web requests
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> James McPhee
>> jmcphe at gmail.com
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