On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Lawrence Anderson<morrisbrow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > My name is Lawrence and Im an undergraduate at Indiana State > University. I always grew up loving technology and computers so I decided to > pursue my degree in Information Technology. Im taking my first Programming > class ever. My goals are to own various web successful web businesses and to > be a proficient web developer. I just purchased a Macbook Pro for the school > year and plan on building a PC for next semester. Im getting the hang of > this Mac but it is still fairly new to me. My class is to begin programming > in Python, but our teacher doesn't speak very good english so she wasn't > able to convey her point very well to the rest of the class. I find that > this may be a problem later down the road, so I took the liberty of finding > out how to open Python on my Mac. I got to the terminal through the utility > folder and I also downloaded Aquamacs Emacs as a code editor. Im a diligent > worker so I love to get through obstacles, but Im not afraid to ask > questions as they come up. In technology the computer is the one who works > alone, not the people. Any starting help would be appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Lawrence
Welcome! :-) If you just want a mailing list to discuss python on, I highly suggest subscribing to Python's general mailing list[1] if you haven't already. This list tends to be both low-volume and focused on mac-specific issues for Python -- so unless you're interested in pyobjc, py2app, etc., I would guess you won't get much response from this list. Nevertheless, my suggestion for beginners would be: 1) Go through the emacs tutorial if you haven't already (C-h t). Also, give vim a try -- it's good to know both of the editors that are omnipresent on *nix systems. 2) Go through some python tutorials. Good luck! ~ Nathan [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
