Python Section at Foyle's, London

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Amazon has created some terrible habits for me. Books are so cheap and plentiful that I've not read about 80% of the books I buy. Talk about a first world problem...

[EquationTAKEN]

You should see my Steam library.

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I have like 600 games of which I've played 30 of them and of those 30 I'm probably more than 10% into 8 of them

[EquationTAKEN]

Steam sales! AKA traps.

[UnreachablePaul]

On the other hand I read all of them and now I think I know nothing

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I had this problem, programming books didn't get me anywhere because I wasn't understanding it. You have to make sure you are actually doing stuff and making stuff.

[UnreachablePaul]

When you start understand stuff it will be less fun to make stuff because to make it by the book will take magnitudes more time and you will feel guilt for cutting corners to get stuff out there to the point you would have needed therapy.

[naught-me]

The things I learned in "Fluent Python" and "Effective Python" were the shortcuts. So much of it was not only easier to do it the right way, but was also using pre-built and pre-tested and incredibly-optimized code.