On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Venkatraman S <venka...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I have written an interactive learning book for Python at >> http://pythonmonk.com/learning/books/17. >> >> I would love it if you could go through the lessons and give feedback. This >> is an alpha version with limited content. We are releasing this to an >> audience we already know before we release to a larger audience. >> >> PythonMonk was built by the folks at C42 Engineering (http://c42.in) and >> uses the same platform as rubymonk.com. >> >> > > 1. Too much screen real-estate seems to be wasted and i find the UI, though > sparse, > sometimes slightly confusing. Am sure its either that I am tired, or am > just not used to > using such sites.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on to PythonMonk team. > 2. Content - "the value", IMHO, would be if you can do a SICP-esque course > via this > platform, so that monetization is a possibility. I've always dreamt of writing a book like SICP using Python. In fact that is my benchmark when I do python trainings and write tutorials. I've always felt that the audience of my trainings are not looking for SICP. They'll run away if I start with newton's method in the first class. Having said that, SICP influenced me greatly and you'll see those patterns in my writings. Here is an example: http://anandology.com/python-practice-book/functional-programming.html > > 3. Am sure someone at HN will ultimately comment that PythonMonk was > written > in Ruby ;) IMHO, programming languages are just tools. I'm not religious about using Python for everything. Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
