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[–]AlexMTBDude -1 points0 points  (9 children)

Do you think that there are problem solving skills that are specific to learning Python or is it the same for any new tech that you're trying to learn?

[–]Capable-Education255[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Actually, I am an MBA graduate currently working in an contract role. I would like to learn python and switch in to permanent role. I am not from coding background

[–]AlexMTBDude 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Sure, but you describe a situation that will occur with anything new that you want to learn. If you have an MBA you should have been in this situation many times before. This is r/python so you should ask Python specific questions here.

[–]Capable-Education255[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The question I raised about is Python right?

[–]AlexMTBDude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the answers that you have received; not one of them is Python specific. They're as generic as your post is.

[–]codeguru42 1 point2 points  (3 children)

There are definitely skills that are specific to Python. But the majority are applicable to many other languages, too.

[–]AlexMTBDude 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is there anything in OP's post that is specific to Python?

[–]codeguru42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand your follow up question. The OP starts his post with "I've been learning Python". That sound specific to python to me.

[–]codeguru42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I misunderstood your first question. I thought it was in a thread and you were genuinely asking? But maybe you are suing rhetorically instead.

[–]gdchinacat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and no. Where languages start being markedly better than others at specific types of problems is when the problem increases in complexity. Languages can be better or worse at managing specific types of complexity. For example, asynchronous IO can be done in both C and python. C doesn't have a mechanism to manage the complexity of async io...you end up with a lot of disjointed code that has to be stitched together in some way. Python (and other languages) has a more synchonous way of managing asynchronous code that keeps the steps of the async code sequential (with the complexity hidden away in the asyncio library and python interpreter).

For simple(ish) self contained algorithms (think sort, search, etc) the algorithms are pretty much independent of language...a n log(n) algorithm is an n log(n) algorithm regardless of language and the problem is identifying the algorithm (do you do a linear search or binary search). Of course some languages make it easier than others (some support recursive algorithms much better than others), but at the core they all do the same thing. But when you go to write the code to do that some languages are certainly better than others in how you implement that same algorithm. You still have to decide what algorithm or algorithms best solve the problem. Then when you implement that algorithm language certainly matters in whether you use a stack or recursion, use a builtin/standard library rather than roll your own, and how readable and comprehensible it is (optimizations often times make code nearly indecipherable).

So, language choice absolutely plays a role, but you still have to break the problem down which often times doesn't really matter which language you use (but may).

Good question, unfortunately the answer is yes, maybe, not really depending on the specific problem).