On Dec 6, 9:21 am, News123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 For something completely different, try http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/ It's Karel the robot, using only Python, and comes with a whole bunch of lessons and exercises.
André -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
