On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, wesley chun wrote:
greetings walter, and welcome to the Python family!
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as far as books go, the best way to learn Python is by writing games.
this is an approach that works both with children as well as adults.
there are several excellent books that can help you with
Another resourse for learning to program is YouTube. They just had a
segment on 60 Minutes about a guy who does all kinds of well
regarded free courses on-line, unfortunately I can't remberber the
URL. I've viewed several Stanford University programming courses, and
there are many Python specific
On 2012/04/03 03:50 PM, Cranky Frankie wrote:
Another resourse for learning to program is YouTube. They just had a
segment on 60 Minutes about a guy who does all kinds of well
regarded free courses on-line, unfortunately I can't remberber the
URL. I've viewed several Stanford University
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Christian Witts cwi...@compuscan.co.za wrote:
Are you possibly thinking of the Khan Academy [1] ?
[1] http://www.khanacademy.org/
Yes, that was it, thanks.
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Are you possibly thinking of the Khan Academy [1] ?
[1] http://www.khanacademy.org/
If you're interested in free courses, MIT also has free programming
courses (done in Python) via their OpenCourseWare and will be
expanding this to MITx in the near future.
OpenCourseWare - Intro to Computer
a couple of other sources of video learning (DISCLAIMER: the 1st is
from my employer, and the 2nd is from me -- the intention is to
provide alternatives not shameless self-promotion so please don't take
it that way!):
1. Google offers an internal Python training class to its employees.
it's a
Hi everybody, my name is Walter I am a new beginner with no programing
experience. I am using OSX Lion, and successfully installed Python version 3. I
am looking for a programing guide for beginners with no programing experience.
Can you please suggest me a good one to use. Thank you.
Walter
I don't currently use Python 3 and don't recommend that you use it to
learn with, mostly because the bulk of the docs and learning resources
are Python 2.x focused and the two are not compatible. That said, here
are some resources that you may find useful (particularly if you choose
to learn using
greetings walter, and welcome to the Python family!
it looks like you've got your machine all set up. hopefully installing
Python 3 wasn't too difficult -- users constantly have issues with
their own installs clash with the Python that's pre-installed by
Apple.
as far as learning Python for
