On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, John Ladasky > <john_lada...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > 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. > > > There is a google course in python on videos. I believe it has time outs for doing assignments. Here is where you go to get started https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ > > Actually yes! My dad (whose name is also John) asked me the same > question, regarding one of my siblings. I put the question to the > list, and got back a number of excellent and most useful answers > regarding book recommendations, and we ended up going with (if memory > serves me) Think Python [1]. It seems to be doing fine, though I've > overheard some issues regarding Tkinter, Python 3.3, and Debian > Squeeze. So be aware that you may have to compile your own Python, and > if you do, you may have to look at what modules get compiled in. But > from my experience of building Python, that's not difficult. > > [1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ I think, but DNS on this > computer is broken at the moment so I can't verify that link > > ChrisA > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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