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For quite some time now I’ve been meaning to learn another coding language. Through my job as 3d animator I learned to write scripts using maxscript, 3ds Max’s native coding language.

It’s great for what it does and it gradually welcomed me into the world of coding, but it only works inside of max. And I want to do more, code more, make useful applications or small programs or whatnot.
After reading @cryptoctopus' post on his journey learning HTML with CSS & Javascript, I decided that indeed, there is no time like the present.

Python

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Therefor I decided to start learning Python. It’s syntax is rather similar to maxscript, which should make it a little bit easier for me to pick up. Having done a few lessons already I can tell this is helping me tremendously.

For instance, what's called an Array in maxscript is called a List in Python. a maxscript Struct is similar to Pythons Dictionary. So it's the same beast by a different name (and slightly different syntax and characters to use)

Codecadamy.com

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I've decided to use codecadamy.com to walk through the general syntax and programming rules concerning Python. It's UI is pretty nice with the lesson on the left, the coder (writing app) in the center and a console (output) on the right.

It works really great for me. The lesson on the left usualy shows a bit of sample code, followed by the actual excercise. In the center I can type the actual code the excercise is looking for and when I press run and my code is in order, I can proceed to the next lessons. If the code is flawed, the console on the right will spit out a debugtext showing what might be wrong with the code.

As with most 'tutorials' or courses, the inside joke is that the first thing you learn is to print 'hello world' to the console, hence the title. Though the text is different, this course is no different in starting with printing something to the console.

As I progress through this course, I hope to share parts of this adventure with you and hope that in the end, I can code something actually useful. And since having a goal/target works best when learning something new, I hope that I myself at the least, but perhaps others as well might use whatever I am able to create to interact with the Steem Blockchain.

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Full STEEM ahead my fellow Steemians - @eqko

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