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Good article on an important topic for novices, but why is it so long ?



Because it helps you learn.

You can tell someone a brief answer to memorize, but to teach them anything takes a little more explaining.

For example, Question #1 is often "how do I do this in some particular way", but 2 and 3, "why" and "when" should I do it that particular way -- they take more explaining than #1 -- and through that explanation, you start to get good at your craft.


Actually I also liked the way each iteration built on the previous concept. Having the full code at each step adds a lot to the length, but for beginners, this is really useful.


Actually, I started reading about async/await from asyncio package. But for a newbie the above article is much simpler to grasp concurrency and parallelism concepts. And the sample code makes it a lot easier.


Didn't seem that long to me? The examples are additive and easy to follow, too.




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