For anyone interested, here's a blog entry I've added over at the Tutorial Wiki:
---------------------------------------- As mentioned by effbot in the previous post I've put together a suggested alternative factoring of the Tutorial here(http://pytut.infogami.com/gerard_refactor). At the minute it just amounts to a carving-up of the existing material into two sections: beginners and intermediate. It's a bit stilted in places, but not excessively. There's also a suggested advanced section - I'm not an advanced user myself so I don't really know what would be appropriate here. Each section in the beginners tutorial has links to relevant FAQS at pyfaq.infogami.com. I also thought the FAQS could be preceded by suitable examples, and maybe there could be a final chapter of exercises. I've been sitting for half an hour trying to articulate why I think this is a good idea, but the well has dried up...and I seem to have gone a bit snow-blind looking at the blank screen! I just remember that when I was learning Python, although the Tutorial was incredibly useful and a key source of info, it seemed that I always had to hunt excessively when I had questions like 'how does **kwargs work?', 'what does extend do again?' etc. - I always thought that things weren't ordered in the best way, and the chapter titles weren't that helpful. so this is how I think it should be done! I hope it's a positive contribution - maybe it will provoke discussion if nothing else. Unfortunately, I won't have easy access to a computer for the next few months, so I can't contribute any more at this point. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments welcome. Or contributions - particularly to the advanced section. All the best. Gerard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
