Tim Toady
Something I have tried to shield you from, but that you will surely run into soon, is the concept of TMTOWTDI (pronounced Tim Toady, I think): There’s More Than One Way To Do It.
Now some will tell you what a wonderful thing TMTOWTDI is, while others feel quite differently. I think it’s pretty cool, because having more than one way to do something feels more expressive. Nonetheless, I think it’s a terrible way to teach someone how to program. (Learning one way to do something is challenging and confusing enough.)
However, now that you are moving beyond this book, you’ll be seeing much more diverse code. For example, I can think of at least five other ways to make a string (aside from surrounding some text in single quotes), and ...