At 10:01 PM 2/8/2003 +0000, george hanson wrote:

Hello, I wanted to write a tutorial using only a few basic constructs of python (function definition and application, conditional expressions, structure definition, local definitions, and assignments) to teach basic design principles. Something like the scheme online book 'How to Design Programs' http://www.htdp.org This is just to gently introduce students to programming using python like syntax, before going into python specific features in depth. Does any similar project already exist?

Cheers George

Would you include the class definition statement? I think classes are quite basic in Python (one of its strengths) and should not be segregated to an "advanced" section. Kirby