Re: some pointers for a newbie

2004-12-05 Thread Abe Mathews
On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 02:26:48 +, Jon Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the matter of IDEs, I've found that Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) > is amazing, although I suspect that it takes a bit of learning to get > used to it and I'm nowhere near making full use of all it can do. It has > a

Re: some pointers for a newbie

2004-12-04 Thread Jon Mercer
On the matter of IDEs, I've found that Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) is amazing, although I suspect that it takes a bit of learning to get used to it and I'm nowhere near making full use of all it can do. It has a really useful plugin in the shape of PyDev. I strongly recommend having a play, al

Re: some pointers for a newbie

2004-12-04 Thread Roy Smith
John Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what i ask is, for someone who wants to dip his toe in the pond and > runs a powerbook with os x what tools, resources should I look into as > being the most useful? I'm also running OSX on a PowerBook, so I guess we're kindred spirits. To a large ext

some pointers for a newbie

2004-12-04 Thread John Evans
Hi, I have decided to play around with python, for the simple reason there appears nothing better to do at 2am on a sunday morning ;) Anyway I am familiar with languages similar to PHP, javaa script, and also languages which have similarities on the surface to python such as Lingo (macromedia D