[Tutor] Looking for an edutainment-type introduction to programming book

[Danny Yoo]

> What I am looking for is a book thats:
>
> 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my
> continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea
> is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.)
>
> 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it should be more
> like "playing with the computer, and having fun" style, with the
> "learning programming" being a sort of side-effect.

Hi Abel,

Under those restrictions, you may want to look at John Maeda's "Design by 
Numbers" book:

     http://dbn.media.mit.edu/whatisdbn.html
     http://dbn.media.mit.edu/

It's not Python, but it does seem interesting.  The book itself is a great 
coffee table book, filled with lots of fascinating pictures.  Frankly, 
it's probably not going to teach many general programming concepts, but it 
does give a sense of computation, and, of course, it's pretty.