[Edu-sig] Does any such tutorial exist?

[Kirby Urner]

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