Hi folks, My son is 17 years old. He just took a one-year course in web page design at his high school. HTML is worth knowing, I suppose, and I think he has also done a little Javascript. He has expressed an interest in eventually wanting to program 3D video games.
For that purpose, HTML and Javascript are too limited. I hardly consider either one to be a real programming language. I want to get him started with a real applications programming language -- Python, of course. And he's ready to learn. OK, so it's not necessarily a fast enough language for the epic video games he envisions, but it's a darn good start. I'll tax his brain with a compiled language like C at some other time. He's a smart kid, but prefers to be shown, to be tutored, rather than having the patience to sit down and RTFM. Have any of you been down this road before? I would appreciate it if you would share your experiences, or provide resource material. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
