Re: Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 5:36:02 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> One thing that I really like doing with my Python students (full >> disclosure: I'm a mentor with www.thinkful.com and am thus at times >> paid to help people learn

Re: Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Rustom Mody
On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 5:36:02 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > One thing that I really like doing with my Python students (full > disclosure: I'm a mentor with www.thinkful.com and am thus at times > paid to help people learn Python) is some form of screen-sharing, so I > can watch hi

Re: Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Christopher J. Pisz
On 1/24/2015 7:12 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/24/2015 6:53 PM, Christopher J. Pisz wrote: I am trying to help a buddy out. I am a C++ on Windows guy. This buddy of mine is learning Python at work on a Mac. I figured I could contribute with non language specific questions and such. When learning

Re: Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/24/2015 6:53 PM, Christopher J. Pisz wrote: I am trying to help a buddy out. I am a C++ on Windows guy. This buddy of mine is learning Python at work on a Mac. I figured I could contribute with non language specific questions and such. When learning any new language, I said, the first step

Re: Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Christopher J. Pisz wrote: > So my buddy creates opens the IDE they gave at the workplace, creates a new > project, adds a demo.py file, writes one line : print "Hello World", hits > Run in the IDE and indeed the display is shown at the bottom when it > executes.

Hello World in Python

2015-01-24 Thread Christopher J. Pisz
I am trying to help a buddy out. I am a C++ on Windows guy. This buddy of mine is learning Python at work on a Mac. I figured I could contribute with non language specific questions and such. When learning any new language, I said, the first step would be a Hello World program. Let's see if we