My son wants me to teach him Python
Joel Goldstick
joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 16:23:21 EDT 2013
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, John Ladasky
> <john_ladasky at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > He's a smart kid, but prefers to be shown, to be tutored, rather than
> having the patience to sit down and RTFM. Have any of you been down this
> road before? I would appreciate it if you would share your experiences, or
> provide resource material.
> >
>
There is a google course in python on videos. I believe it has time outs
for doing assignments. Here is where you go to get started
https://developers.google.com/edu/python/
>
> Actually yes! My dad (whose name is also John) asked me the same
> question, regarding one of my siblings. I put the question to the
> list, and got back a number of excellent and most useful answers
> regarding book recommendations, and we ended up going with (if memory
> serves me) Think Python [1]. It seems to be doing fine, though I've
> overheard some issues regarding Tkinter, Python 3.3, and Debian
> Squeeze. So be aware that you may have to compile your own Python, and
> if you do, you may have to look at what modules get compiled in. But
> from my experience of building Python, that's not difficult.
>
> [1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ I think, but DNS on this
> computer is broken at the moment so I can't verify that link
>
> ChrisA
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