Links and a Tangent (Re: [Tutor] Py FAQs for newbies)

[Brian Wisti]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, McCarney, James Alexander wrote:
Hi James and Everyone Else,

> Anyway, I wonder if there is (whenever I wonder in Pythonland whatever I
> wish for always seems to appear magically!) a simpler FAQ or Cookbook (even
> simpler than all of the wonderful manna on Vaults of Parnassus). For
> complete programming newbies, all of what goes on here might be like trying
> to take a sip from a firehose.

FAQs and Cookbooks are almost obscure by tradition ;-)  I think it's so 
that people who are already comfortable with the basics of Python can find 
something specific they might have forgotten.  You'll probably want to try 
one of the masses of online tutorials, and _then_ go back to see if the 
FAQ makes more sense.

The first stop for gentle newbie Python tutorials is here:

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

I am quite fond of Danny Yoo's guide through a single day with IDLE:

	http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html

If you want to humor an aspiring tutorial-writer, you can check out my own 
desperate attempt at a guide through the first steps with Python and IDLE.  
It's very ... how shall I say ... casual.
	
	http://www.coolnamehere.com/geekery/python/pythontut

Hope these links are kind of helpful!

Now for the tangent, which actually has more to do with the question James 
posted than the rest of what I've been writing.  Is there a resource for 
Pythonistas similar to the Perlmonks site (http://www.perlmonks.org/)?  
I've been rescued time and again by the stuff there: FAQ-ish, 
Cookbook-ish, and so on.  I'd really like to see a Pythonmonks site 
someday.  Heck, I'd figure it out myself if there was enough interest,
and those interested folks could deal with the fact that I'm working off of a 
DSL connection on an old clunker computer :-)

Back to my coffee,

Brian Wisti
brian@coolnamehere.com
http://www.coolnamehere.com/