[Tutor] INTERESTED

Martijn Faassen faassen@vet.uu.nl
Sun, 9 Jan 2000 02:57:05 +0100


DANNY  BOWLING wrote:
> HELLO,

Hi there.

>      MY NAME IS DANNY BOWLING I'M 28YRS. OLD.
> I'M CURRENTLY LEARNING TO USE THE SOFTWARE TEST TOOL ( WIN-RUNNER) 
> I'M IN TRAINING TO BECOME A SOFTWARE TESTER. I SEEN THIS WEB SITE ON (ZDTV) .

> I WAS WONDERING WHAT WOULD I HAVE TO DOWN LOAD TO IN ORDER TO BEING TO USE
> THIS PROGRAM?

Since you indicated you're on Windows, look here:

http://www.python.org/download/download_windows.html

Just py152.exe is enough, but the windows extensions are neat, so you may
want to get win32-all too.

The Python official documentation can be found here; it contains a tutorial,
though this is aimed at programmers already. Still you'd might want to
try it. 

http://www.python.org/doc/

Various other tutorials can be found through the Vaults of Parnassus 
(a really nice site for Python information). The vaults are here:

http://www.vex.net/parnassus

This is a reference to the tutorials page:

http://www.vex.net/parnassus/apyllo.py/935043691.636055170

>  AND IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE OF MY AGE TO LEARN TO WRITE PROGRAMS? 

Yes, that should definitely be possible. Set yourself some goal (a program
you'd like to see), and work towards it. Initially try not to be too
ambitious! Try something simple with text or numbers first. Later on you
may process to reading files and processing data, or to making a user
interface for your program, and so on. Be sure not to give up too early;
curiosity and perseverence are the key. And ask questions on this list! 

Python's a good language to start with if you're a beginning programmer.

As an aside, it's conventional on the net not to write your mails in
all capitals. It's interpreted as shouting by many readers, which isn't
what you're trying to accomplish.

Good luck!

Regards,

Martijn