On Saturday 19 October 2002 01:27 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Would it be good to put Useless Python on the Newbies page too?
Sorry, it doesn't really strike me as a strong newbie resource.
I respectfully disagree -- I think I'm still enough of a newbie to speak from personal impressions. I've spent less time there than I would like, but what I did spend was very pleasant. It goes a long way to showing the sorts of things one can do with Python, which is one of the first things a newbie wants to know: "Why should I learn this? What's it good for?" Seeing easy or compact solutions for problems which seem hard is a great builder of confidence in the language. Furthermore, the site is full of ideas about how to tackle a problem, which is something else newbies are often looking for. Now, I'm not a newbie to programming, but only to Python (and since I've been at it a year or so, I'm not so much of a newbie anymore), but I found it very invigorating, if a bit misnamed ;-). The light humor, though, makes it a lot less threatening. Cheers, Terry -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com