Learning Python in a group
Hi all, I'm looking to learn Python (as my first programming language) and I'm pretty sure I'd be more successful doing this with a group of other people. I've currently got one other person to learn with me, and we plan to work remotely over the net using tools such as IM/VoiP/Gobby/WIkis etc. We'd still like a few others to work with us, with a group of about 5 or 6 being seen as ideal. We'd also like to find somebody to act as a mentor/guide who might be happy to meet with us once every couple of weeks to help keep us moving in the right direction and find solutions to problems when we get really stuck! Wondered if there was anybody here who might be interested in working with us in either of these roles? We both have differing goals, but ultimately we'd just like to get more familiar so that we can provide some simple fixes to packages we maintain/scratch a few itches of our own. Any one is welcome, no matter what your own aim :) Would love to hear feedback, especially from anyone who's interested in working with us... Best, Jon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Learning Python in a group
> If you want people to meet with you (in person) as a mentor you should > probably ask on your local Python or Linux users group mailing list. We're not really too worried about doing it in person - mostly because the people doing it so far are all at least 1000 miles away from each other :) Best, Jon > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Learning Python in a group
> I'm sure that many (myself included) would be happy to help out, but > due to timezone differences, working hours, etc you may only get > responses up to 24 hours (or more) later. Awesome, heh I'm sure we'll have questions for the list in good time :) > > What needs does your (non-face-to-face) group have that would not be > met by posting questions to the Python Tutor list? > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > Perhaps you and your co-learners can sign up to that list, and > coordinate with that list's users to use your wiki, messaging > services, etc? Actually, I hadn't seen that list before but I've just signed up for it and it sounds really interesting! The big difference really is that I'd like to try and build something a little more personal, where we have a group of people who can contact each other in real time and have regular meeting times as well as being able to find each other in between meetings too. I think this kind of consistent relationship is probably quite conducive to learning, and I think others would probably agree :) > Personally I learned Python from the Python docs (starting with the > tutorial), practice, and Google. Dive Into Python is good too. Yeah, I think we're definitely going to be making use of these resources, and then just using each other as support as we wade through the material and inevitably get stuck in places! Thanks for your help :) Best, Jon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
