Pascal/Python for USE?

Question

Python

Good afternoon, gentlemen. So the time is approaching for the delivery of the state. exams. Someone dreamed of becoming a physicist, someone a mathematician, and someone decided to link these disciplines and add ICT to them. But things are not going as well as we would like. The fact is that in our school the teaching of ICT is very lame (as, indeed, in many others), you have to catch up and study everything yourself. With Pascal, things are not moving very well, a rather difficult language to start, as it seems to me, so the USE will also be written on paper, without using any computers, which increases the mess with the code.
The crux of the question is, is it worth continuing to beat on Pascal's closed door, or is it worth trying to master Python in the remaining couple of months?
Materials from YouTube and Mark Lutz's manual will be taken as the basis for the preparation.
If you have any corrections, comments or just tips, please share them.
PS - If it's Python, then which version to choose: 3.5.1; 2.7.11?

Answer 1

You can master Python at the level for the exam in the remaining time without any problems. As for Lutz: I found him too boring, I liked the books of Dawnson and Summerfield somehow more. I can also advise Immersion in Python, I started with it myself. Or even an official tutorial, if English is good. It's not really the point, the main thing is to train. In addition, the tasks in the exam are very primitive, so if you wish, everything will work out.
It is better to take 3.5, because. later on life will be useful.
About Pascal, I think it's better to immediately forget and not remember. In 2016, it is simply not needed.
PS If anything, I can answer some questions in the PM. I passed the exam last year + I can generally tell you about programming what and how.

Answer 2

It all depends on you
3.5.1