[Tutor] General Programming Question

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Chris Keelan wrote:

> On Friday 29 June 2001 04:39, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
> 
> > A useful read and the lessons translate well back into Python but I'd
> > never recommend SICP as a first book on programming.
> 
> What would you recommend?


I'd recommend Alan Gauld's "Learn to Program Using Python".  There's a
reference to the book here:

    http://www.crosswinds.net/~agauld/

It's one of the better books I've seen on introductory programming.