Programming by Stealth is good, but is focused more on JavaScript for web than for automation (I’m very much enjoying Bart’s delve into Git on PbS at the moment). Perhaps in combination with another book more geared to a broader introduction to Python. Not saying it isn’t a good book, just perhaps not the best option for learning Python. I think Automating the Boring Stuff with Python is quite specific, and not something that will give you a broader grounding in Python. P.S.: While I intend this post to be helpful to anyone with the same doubts I have, for those who ask about which will be my use cases, I’m both a professor of tax law and lawyer so, beside being interested in some cool automation tricks, on my day job I deal with a lot of emails, text, word documents, PDFs, databases, excel and csv spreadsheets, and the likes. Therefore I thought it was a good idea to ask to this community their opinions on the pros and cons of those languages, and help me and others decide which one to learn first. The real diference seems to be the community and the use cases they develop around it. I’m beginning to realize that the diferences on languages (from a learning stand point) tend to reduce the more you know about programming in general, as the basic concepts (variables, arrays, dictionaries, etc) tend to repeat with some name and/or syntax changes.
Python is great for its modules and its application for handling with big chunks of data in general (analysis, web crawling etc.), it looks like its less suited to a quick-and-dirty-on-the-moment script though (perhaps I’m just a bit more intimidated by it). Javascript seems to be more used in this iOS/macOS automation corner of the internet and is great for small tweaks on strings, fetching data on JSON dictionaries that are everywhere, etc. I was looking into the most commom languages and now am between Python ( Automating the Boring Stuff with Python seems to be a good start) or JavaScript ( Programming by Stealth episodes look like a good start point, are they?).įrom a quick look into the topics on this Forum, I’ve formed an impression that: Hey guys, after a joyful ride on AppleScript, I’ve started to hit into some limitations and now I am looking for the next step into my “programming” formation.
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