I’ve been thinking about taking a course, starting next month. Introduction to Python Programming is being offed at UBC starting next month.

I’m thinking it would be a good idea but I really wish work had an education program of some sort given that work is 75% of the reason that I want to take it. I did a little Python at Schemasoft and it’s not too bad. It’s right in the middle of object oriented and scripting and the syntax is pretty easy.

I just wonder if it’s what I really want to do. I recall not enjoying programming when I was in school and I’d hate to shell out $500 for something I’m never going to follow through on. If work paid, I’d take it, suck it up and get on with it but when I’m footing the bill there might be other things I’d rather do.

I’m much more partial to web stuff though I realize it’s a stretch to call it programming. I put the page on http://sevenapril.ca/ together in a couple of hours and loved every minute of it. It’s a simple link page but it was fun and easy to throw together.

I look at some of the Web 2.0 stuff like Ruby and AJAX and wonder if I should go down that road instead even if it has nothing to do with my current job. Ruby seems to be the flavour of the moment but it is compelling.

Speaking of Web 2.0, Chris Pirillio has come up with a new meta seach called gada.be. It seems to work quite well. The interesting thing is that your query is returned as the subdomain of gada.be. So a search for ‘foo’ returns the URL as http://foo.gada.be/ Interesting.

That’s the sorta stuff I’d like to be learning…