More stuff added to ch 2 of my programming intro

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* Mensanator:
> On Dec 16, 4:41 pm, Mensanator <mensana... at aol.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 14, 1:23 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
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>>> * Alf P. Steinbach:
>>>>   Format: PDF
>>>>   <url:http://preview.tinyurl.com/ProgrammingBookP3>
>>>> The new stuff, section 2.7, is about programs as simulations and
>>>> handling data, focusing on modeling things. It includes some Python GUI
>>>> programming. The plan is to discuss containers like lists and
>>>> dictionaries in perhaps two more subsections of 2.7, but I'm not quite
>>>> sure about how to approach that or exactly how much to cover, since the
>>>> intent of ch 2 is to introduce mostly general concepts and enable the
>>>> reader to try out (more or less) interesting things.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - Alf
>>>> PS: comments welcome!
>>> Well, I posted the current doc. It has a not yet quite complete section 2.7.7
>>> about arrays, and that will be the last subsection of the chapter.  I thought
>>> using the Josephus circle problem as example was pretty neat... :-)
>>> But anyway, comments welcome, even if that last section's not yet finished.
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Alf
>>> PS: Oh, I changed the manuscript title to "Intelligent Person's Intro to
>>> Programming"  --  is that good?
>> Sure. After all, "Idiot's Guide to Programming" and "Programming for
>> Dummies" are probably already taken, albeit more appropriate
> 
> Oh, and about Chapter 1.
> 
> If you're going to use version 3.1.1 as your standard, shouldn't
> you also point out that 3.1.1 is NOT bundled with Mac OS X?
> 
> How about devoting a section on downloading the source files
> and compiling it on a Mac?

Learn to read.

At the top of every second page it tells you that this is an introduction based 
on Windows.



Cheers & hth.,

- Alf