On Mar 4, 12:49 pm, Ignoramus20691 <ignoramus20...@NOSPAM. 20691.invalid> wrote: > I bought a "Hello World!" book for my 9 year old son. The book teached > "programming for kids" and it does it in Python. > > I do not know any Python, but I am very comfortable with C++ and perl. > I wrote a little over 100k lines of perl. > > I want to learn Python quickly to help him with his studies/fun. > > I would prefer a "no shit" book that quickly teaches a language to > programmers. > > Any suggestions? > > i
The included ~12 page tutorial was all I needed; the rest was just looking up stuff in the standard documentation and messing around at the interactive prompt: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
