At 06:21 AM 7/10/2008 +0400, deepu john wrote: >It would have been extremely useful to have an audiobook about python which >one can listen to while sitting in a tram, waiting at a doctors office, >walking on the treadmill, driving a car.... The same topics that will take >about an hour to read through in a book can be listened through in 10 or 15 >minutes. > >Hope someone will do it soon, that then python would become the only >programming language that can be learnt by listening!
Can you really learn Python this way? Try writing some code after listening to a verbal explanation only. Even if you have amazing powers to visualize what you hear, the verbal description, even for something as simple as a for-loop, would be tedious. There is a reason programming books are written the way they are - programming is a visual thing for most people, even a tactile thing, at least for me. If I don't actually write some code, I quickly forget what I have just read. That said, it would be nice to have more tutorials written for targeted audiences, like biological scientists. A well-written tutorial integrates the code and words in a way that your thoughts are not disrupted by having to find an example buried in a complex figure on another page. The best person to write a tutorial for biological scientists is a biological scientist who has just learned Python. Go for it!! I'll be glad to read and offer suggestions. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
