On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <al...@start.no> wrote: > [Cross-posted comp.programming and comp.lang.python] > > Hi. > > I may finally have found the perfect language for a practically oriented > introductory book on programming, namely Python. > > C++ was way too complex for the novice, JScript and C# suffered from too > fast-changing specifications and runtime environment, Java, well, nothing > particularly wrong but it's sort of too large and unwieldy and inefficient. > > I don't know whether this will ever become an actual book. I hope so! > > But since I don't know much Python -- I'm *learning* Python as I write -- I > know that there's a significant chance of communicating misconceptions, > non-idiomatic ways to do things, bad conventions, etc., in addition to of > course plain errors of fact and understanding in general, to which I'm not > yet immune... > > So I would would be very happy for feedback. <snip> > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/progintro > > Cheers, > > - Alf > > PS: Please use the groups, this thread, for feedback; not e-mail. -DS
- The slogan is "batteries included", not "all batteries included". - As a user of the platform, I can tell you it's "Mac OS X" (with a space, not a slash). - ActivePython is a distribution, not an implementation. It's just the standard CPython from python.org with some bundled extras. - I might consider making the first example multiline. Most cringe at the use of semicolons in a Python program, although I can understand it might be easier for the newbie to type correctly. - You might mention how unit testing is used in interpreted languages to detect many sorts of errors detected by the compiler in compiled languages Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
