Working on a python tutorial...comments desired

[Alex K. Angelopoulos]

Two opinions after looking at this, and comparing it to the current tutorial
online.

1. Your approach is much more simplistic and action-oriented than the tutorial
now at python.org.  This is good; if I had something like this when I first
started playing with Python, I would probably have gotten the concept much
faster.

2. The tutorials online have an approach that I find useful now, and are very
good conceptually.  This means modifying those as your starting point would not
only be very cumbersome for you to do, but it would also "damage" some of the
value they have.

In summary, it looks like writing a tutorial in your own style could produce a
very useful document.  With your approach, the real test is not whether current
Python users find it useful but whether the people who don't use it yet will
find it useful.  If you want to start notifying people as you write it to get
feedback, count me in.

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"Tyler Eaves" <tyler at cg1.org> wrote in message
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> I've started working on what will (with luck) be an extensive python
> turorial. I'm writing in a book type format, although I plan to offer it
> for free online. What I need help with is in determining what people would
> like to see in it. I'm aiming this tutorial at beginning to intermediate
> users. Right now the plan is to focus on 'getting stuff done' as opposed to
> the finer points of OO. I'd also love feedback on formatting and what not.
>
> You can download my current (Very early) draft of the beginning from:
> http://cg1.org/pythontut.pdf
>
> The file is 132KB in size.
>
> Thanks!
> Tyler Eaves