Learning how to program... but what's the best way?

[Gerhard Häring]

* Hans Nowak <wurmy at earthlink.net> [2002-07-10 04:17 +0000]:
> To give an idea of what I have in mind: A good start could be, for example, 
> some kind of game that can be scripted in Python, and therefore extended at 
> will.

Sounds difficult. I'd start with something simple. And in fact when I
was at that age, and learnt languages like C, C++ and Modula-2, the
first programs I wrote were always Tic-Tac-Toe (very simple) and Number
Mind.

Tic-Tac-Toe should be easy enough to start with. And both of them can be
programmed with a simple text-mode interface (print and raw_input),
without requiring a GUI.

Gerhard
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