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From: signups17@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:04:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)

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,
etc.

As I get more and more into programming, I get the sense that "real"
programmers use emacs or vi, or some other editor that from my
perspective, seems arcane and impenetrable compared to something
simple like IDLE that comes with Python, or Scite, for example.

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?

Also, assuming I'm convinced, can you point me in the direction of a
good tutorial?

Thanks in advance.

             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-17 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-17 22:04 signups17 [this message]
2008-01-17 22:47 ` Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question Rupert Swarbrick
2008-01-18  0:26 ` reader
2008-01-18  1:44 ` Nick Roberts
2008-01-18  9:02 ` Andreas Röhler
2008-01-18  9:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-18 10:05 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2008-01-18 11:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-01-18 23:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-19  0:19 ` Mike Treseler
2008-01-21 16:33   ` rustom
2008-01-22 17:24 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-22 18:10   ` Mike Mattie
2008-01-23  6:02 ` Bob McCormick

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