From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Treseler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:19:58 -0800 Message-ID: <5vcu1fF1m14t4U1@mid.individual.net> References: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200703248 27773 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2008 00:40:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:40:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 19 01:41:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JG1ld-0007Dh-N5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JG1lE-0004mp-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net AhdN/8b1xBmFyGJBvGCZxg1JFd7kXwpXaps+zjTccIY4mG+D5t Cancel-Lock: sha1:De9NRMyrfH7kLD1WS7Qr3kR206I= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155412 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50816 Archived-At: signups17@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, I'm beginning to teach myself the art of computer programming. I'm > starting with Python and I've built a few scripts that have increased > my productivity tremendously at work, doing a lot of data crunching, > Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for why I should take the time > to climb that learning curve? What are the benefits, as you see them? Python mode might be reason enough. Open my_file.py then C-c C-c If there are no errors, a buffer opens showing the output. If there is an error, the point jumps to the line and the error message is displayed in the output buffer. Fix the error and C-c C-c again. And so on. -- Mike Treseler