Lambdas

I've just realized that up until now I had made the wrong assumption that a lambda expression is evaluated and also executed at its definition. That's practically impossible if it takes arguments, but that didn't occur to me until now.

I think that the reason for this misconception is that I have mostly seen lambda used in situations where a value was needed. But that doesn't sound right either. I think I was confused, really confused.

I'm glad that changed.

Hello, Internet!

I've decided to start a blog in which I will document my experience in learning programming. When you saw the title, you probably thought of Lambda the Ultimate. That's what I thought as well, but since I'm pretty much a beginner, I thought I'd call my blog Lambda the First, although I know realize that that might imply I consider myself the first. Well, not yet.

So far, I'm familiar with Python and JavaScript, so I will mostly discuss about these. I have also used Scrapy (a web crawling framework written in Python) for the last couple of months, so I'll be mentioning it too.

Next, I'm planning to learn to use Twisted, so you can imagine that it will drip in here. I actually intend to create a mind map to help me learn better, but I'll see how that goes because, from what I've seen, Twisted is huge. Maybe several mind maps, each focusing on a specific module, will be more appropriate.

Creating mind maps is one of my hobbies, so I'll be doing it a lot. I already have a few for Python, Scrapy, JavaScript, Django, which I will publish shortly.

Ok, that's about it for my first post. I'm curious to see how this will evolve.