Python for beginners

[Simon Brunning]

"Michael Briel" <kruge at gmx.de> wrote in message news:<9khr73$5rm$03$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> I'm generally interested in Python - can anybode point me to either a book
> or a page that teaches you from the beginning how to use this language? I
> generally know how to program computers, but I haven't done it in ages, so
> it better be "for Dummies"... ;o)

If you haven't programmed before, check out Alan Gauld's 'Learning to
Program' at <http://www.crosswinds.net/~agauld/>, or 'How to think
like a Computer Scientist', at
<http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?section=thinkpython>. These are
aimed at teaching programming using Python to complete beginners.

Links to *loads* of tutorials can be found at
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Python/Documentation_and_Tutorials/>.

And don't forget the Python tutor mailing list, at
<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>. Well worth joining if
you are learning Python!

Cheers,
Simon B.