What are the common usage of python programming language?

Learning Python (Programming language)?

• I've started to learn the Python programming language. I've followed many tutorials and have read up quite a bit about it. However, I find it hard to keep motivated. I was hoping some Python experts could answer the following questions: - What resources did you use to learn Python? - How long did it take you to become proficient? - What was your first useful program? - What motivated you to learn Python? What were your goals and objectives? Thanks! P.S Note to trolls: This has nothing to do with snakes.

• Answer:

  - What resources did you use to learn Python? I learned from the official tutorial here: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ Nowadays, I usually can be found in comp.lang.python newsgroup: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/topics - How long did it take you to become proficient? About a week, but I already have previous experience in programming with VB. - What was your first useful program? Can't remember, it just swiftly escalate in complexity in a few months; can't remember the separating line - What motivated you to learn Python? What were your goals and objectives? I can't remember. It was just one day, I decided I have enough with VB, I think... and I found python.