Thanks for your answers,
I'll look at - "Python Programming, for the absolute beginner (second edition by MichaelDawson." and at the LiveWires Course: http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/home I looked at http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy/ but think it's not a good choice for a non engineer, as this course tries to explain many principles, which are not really needed to get started. AN example is recursion. Recursion is important but confuses easily. I remember still how quite some people at school disconencted mentally when the teacher tried to explain the 'mathematical induction'. bye N News123 wrote: > Hi, > > One of my 'non technical' friends complained about knowing nothing at > all about programming (though using computers regularly for mails / web > browsing / googling and downloading / cropping photos ) > > He wants to play a little with programming to stimulate parts of his > otehrwise idle brain cells. ;-) Normally it's more the social science / > linguistic parts being exercised, > > I thought python might be a nice language for this > > No my question does anybody know a nice beginners book (or a learning CD > or on line tutorial)? Ideally it shouldn't be too serious and have a lot > of small nice mini-examples > > thanks in advance for any suggestions hints > > > bye > > > N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
