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Practicing Developer • Edited

Got it, that makes it challenging.

I wonder if there is some space out on the margins where you could still find a real use case that would benefit from Python in your daily work, even if it's for automating some repetitive chores. It's also a good web development language so if there's some way of introducing a web project into the mix that might help too, but then again maybe not.

What got you interested in learning Python? If you already knew it well, what would you be using it for?

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Matthew Bland

I'll tell ya one thing, World of Tanks is actually written in python on top of a C engine so that's something I could try... I really am interested because it's a highly popular language that's easy to use

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Ah, yeah! I know that a lot of games use Lua for the higher level scripting / embedded language but I am sure Python can be used similarly and there's a strong case for getting out of C++ once you beyond the engine level anyway.

Anyway, good luck finding creative ways to build your Python skills!

Not sure if you've seen Learn Python the Hard Way, but it could be a neat way of doing some small exercises that only take a few minutes per day:

learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/

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Matthew Bland

Nice, I'll definitely consider that.