OOPs
Generally, when most people learn that I am a geologist by training, they are surprised. Maybe I just give off some sort of geeky aura, or maybe they are surprised that I’m not "using my degree" (actually I am in a way, but that is too convoluted a story to get into here). At any rate, the point is that I am not a programmer by training. I’d say that at least 75%+ of what I know about programming I taught myself through the ole School of Hard Knocks. I’ve had my share of training courses, but the vast majority of my experience has been just sitting down and cranking out code over the last eight years or so. But I digress. Today was a good day. Today I wrote my first object-oriented Python script from scratch . And it works. It’s not much, about a 100-line geoprocessing script; but it works. And I understand it and now realize how much easier this makes programming in Python. Look out.
