bambooforest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm from a Linguistics background and am new(er) to programming. Could
Welcome! Some of my best memories date from back when I did computational linguistics (with emphasis on the 'computational', but in close cooperation with people with emphasis on the 'linguistics', such as that wonderful scholar and gentleman, Tullio de Mauro). > I've looked at the online Python tutorial at python.org and resources > like O'Reilly's Python in a Nutshell, but they seem to teach you > language syntax and concepts like data types, or assume you already > know how to program. As the author of said Nutshell, I concur: it *most definitely* does not teach you programming!!! > I'm searching for something that teaches > programming. I suggest <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598631128/103-7955757-3523837?v=glanc e&n=283155> Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list