[Tutor] Python tutor

[Alan Gauld]

"Noufal Ibrahim" <noufal at nibrahim.net.in> wrote in message 
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> Greetings all,

Greetings,

> the reader learns stuff). Another example that comes to mind is the
> tcltutor program to learn TCL. It contains an instruction window, a
> code window and an output window. The user is told something, they try
> it and the output is visible. I personally used it when I was learning
> TCL.

The tcltutor is fabulous and I've often toyed with the idea of trying to
build a Pythonic version. I particularly like the way you can toggle from
newbie view to expert view and get the same feature described in
friendly English prose through to the bare man pages.

> The python tutorial is great and probably all one needs to learn the
> language but I think a more interactive program to teach it might be

I tried at one stage producing JavaScripted versions of the code in my
tutor where you could step through the code with the active line being
highlighted in colour - like a debugger. But after struggling for ages to 
get
one short example to work it seemed too much like hard work!

> Do you all think it'll be a worthwhile project?

I think it would be a great project.

The other one in similar vein is to do a demo program of the Tkinter
(and the Tix widgets too) similar to the Tcl/Tk demo program. Again
I've had it on my list of 'things to do' for several years now!

Alan G.
(Back from a weeks vacation in sunny Spain! :-)