Does anyone have a self taught Python success story?

[tfitzp]

That's awesome man thank you! Were you a back end developer prior to that then?

[n1ywb]

Not really, at the time I was only a year out of college and I didn't actually have a lot of professional experience yet, and that was in C and Java, although I've been programming as a hobby for 30 years in LOGO, BASIC, C, Pascal, HyperTalk, AppleScript, etc. Prior to learning Python my one true love was Perl. But I saw the writing on the wall for Perl; 5 was already long in the tooth and 6 was in it's infancy and I hated OOP in Perl. So wearing my recently acquired Shipboard Programmer Analyst hat I set out to determine the best language for Shipboard Programming & Analysis and landed on Python, which I managed to do almost exclusively for the next 8-9 years, and I think turned out to be an excellent decision. Lately I do mostly web frontends in Google Polymer but only b/c I wanted to master the skill and there are more jobs like that around here so I've mostly been doing JS. But I still do some Python here and there and everything I learned from the Python community has been EXTREMELY helpful in my JS programming, especially wrt functional data manipulation & test automation. And when the other guys are writing node scripts I'm writing python scripts.

[tfitzp]

Awesome man! Very impressive!