[Tutor] print "Hello, World!"

[Patty]

Hello Doug - My very first document I read - before I took an online 
course - was "A Quick, Painless Tutorial on the Python Language" by Norman 
Matloff from UC Davis.  My copy is dated May 1, 2009 but I think he has 
updated it -- looks like May 2010.  Here is the link, you may also want to 
query for other links like this for Matloff because I saw a few others while 
looking this up for you.  It is free.

http://html-pdf-converter.com/pdf/a-quick-painless-tutorial-on-the-python-language.html

I also liked Alan Gauld's tutorial and the videos made by Google - taught by 
Nick Parlante - Here is the link:

http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/

I was not really happy with the actual course I took.  You can contact me 
offline about this.

Regards,

Patty


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Marvel" <smokeinourlights at gmail.com>
To: <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>; <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] print "Hello, World!"


Holy wow! I'm going to go through all of these and see what sort of
understanding I can absorb. I'm super excited that a helpful community
exists for this, but I'm more excited to start learning. So I'm going
to go do that now. I'm starting with Alan Gauld's tutorial, but like I
said, I'm going to check out all of them, until I build some
confidence. So far, this one seems to run at my speed. I'll be back,
for certain. It took me twenty minutes to figure out how to get the
">>>" to come up in DOS after typing 'python'. hahaha


It's good to meet all of you, and thanks again.
Doug

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> 
wrote:
> "michael scott" <jigenbakuda at yahoo.com> wrote
>
>> already been asked, learn from others who asked before you :) Oh yea, I
>> once
>> read that there are no intermediate tutorials in any programming 
>> language,
>> because once you get past the basics, you only need to reference the
>> "documentation" that comes with the language.
>
> Thats very nearly true. There are intermediate level tutorials for a few
> languages but more generally you get subject specific tutorials on
> things like parsing, web programming, GUI programming, databases,
> networking, stats and scientific programming etc etc.
>
> So there are usually intermediate level tutorials to suit they are rarely
> full language tutorials.
>
> I try to cover that off with the advanced topics and "Python in practice"
> topics at the end of my tutorial. But again they are focused on specific
> topic areas (OS, database, networks, web).
>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
>
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