A retired guy at the library showed me his 40 lines of Python and it hit harder than any tutorial

Shane Bell · 2026-10-12T03:30:03.815216+00:00

I volunteer at the public library in Dayton on Saturdays helping with the intro coding meetup, and a retired machinist named Ray came in with a laptop running Windows 7. He had 40 lines of Python that sorts his wife's recipe cards into categories, and he wrote it over 6 weeks with a paperback book from 2009. He said the book explained things slow enough for him to keep up, unlike the free videos he kept quitting. It stuck with me because I push people toward whatever is newest and fastest, and here he was finishing a real project with a tool I would call outdated. Do you learn better from old books and slow examples, or do videos work better for you?

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