Dec-04-2020, 09:47 PM
[quote="perfringo" pid='132461' dateline='1607093302']
I find it quite disturbing that Google for Education states:
[quote]For Google's Python Class, it's best to use Python 2.7. Although Python 3.x is becoming more popular, this course is designed for Python 2.6 or later.[/quote]
Google is industry heavyweight but not everything is gold what shines. Do not take any course which insists on using Python 2. Why? Read official statement Sunsetting Python 2
[quote]
We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language. We have decided that January 1, 2020, was the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can.
[/quote]
It's not recommended to learn something obsolete. Why learn something you can't use?
I am an older guy, like the bottom up approach. Stepping up to version 3 will be easy. The standard of the Google course shines for me, interactive videos, lessons and exercises... Google does not shine but course material shines as a starting place... you can ask me about database programming, bash, little bit of powershell and all those things i already have... i will get to version 3... slowly catchy monkey..
I find it quite disturbing that Google for Education states:
[quote]For Google's Python Class, it's best to use Python 2.7. Although Python 3.x is becoming more popular, this course is designed for Python 2.6 or later.[/quote]
Google is industry heavyweight but not everything is gold what shines. Do not take any course which insists on using Python 2. Why? Read official statement Sunsetting Python 2
[quote]
We are volunteers who make and take care of the Python programming language. We have decided that January 1, 2020, was the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can.
[/quote]
It's not recommended to learn something obsolete. Why learn something you can't use?
I am an older guy, like the bottom up approach. Stepping up to version 3 will be easy. The standard of the Google course shines for me, interactive videos, lessons and exercises... Google does not shine but course material shines as a starting place... you can ask me about database programming, bash, little bit of powershell and all those things i already have... i will get to version 3... slowly catchy monkey..