[Tutor] new to this

[Danny Yoo]

> >One motivation to learning to program is that I've read a bit about
> >Chaos over the years, I am fascinated by that, and I think it would be
> >great to write my own programs involving AI, fractals, and what have
> >you.
> >
> Python is an all-purpose programming language, well suited for almost
> everything, except - as is often states - for real-time control of
> airplanes and nuclear power-plants etc ...
>
> What concerns AI, there is the new editition of google-director Peter
> Norvigs and Stuart Russels classic "leading textbook in Artificial
> Intelligence", AI: a modern approach, now beeing equipped with
> Python-Code. See: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/aima.html

Peter Norvig, coauthor of "AI: A Modern Approach", is also known for his
book "Foundations of Artificial Intellegence Programming: Case Studies in
Common Lisp".

    http://norvig.com/

Incidently, he's also the author of the Python IAQ (Infrequently Asked
Questions).  *grin*

Good luck!