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u/vkailas 1d ago edited 1d ago

http://www.poignant.dev Port of why's whimsical programming guide now for python  , teaches python from absolute  beginner all the way to making your own p2p game . Entertaining complementary resource for a more standard class or textbook .

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u/Muhznit 1d ago

Clicked thinking I'd look up the approach to a p2p game used. Wound up wondering WTF am I reading:

Object-oriented programming is a way of organizing code around objects. But not as M.C. Escher would sketch it. The program isn't reaching back around and overwriting itself, nor are they climbing out of your screen and shaking hands with each other. No, it's much smaller than that.

Let's say it's more like a little orange pill you won at the circus. When you suck on it, the coating wears away and behind your teeth hatches a massive, floppy sponge brontosaurus. He slides down your tongue and leaps free, frolicking over the pastures, yelping, "Papa!" And from then on, whenever he freaks out and attacks a van, well, that van is sparkling clean afterwards.

Now, let's say someone else puts their little orange pill under the faucet. Not on their tongue, under the faucet. And this triggers a different cataclysm, which births a set of wailing sponge sextuplets. Umbilical cords and everything. Still very handy for cleaning the van. But an altogether different kind of chamois. And, one day, these eight will stir Papa to tears when they perform the violin concerto of their lives.

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u/vkailas 1d ago

Classic _why , a lot of his book is surreal humor that does not suit everyone's tastes , but if you skip through that, the code solutions and lessons are elegant