X-Received: by 10.224.200.202 with SMTP id ex10mr744573qab.8.1371098843550; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:47:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.61.229 with SMTP id t5mr1301110qer.36.1371098843535; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!bw2no1421114qab.0!news-out.google.com!y6ni1854qax.0!nntp.google.com!ch1no5572622qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:47:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.196.65.107; posting-account=h3aEwQoAAACiuqX-oR3gvCVFm8lLHoWj NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.196.65.107 References: <575a3a4c-b99f-43b4-aa2b-84dfaf3e89b4@googlegroups.com> <0d636b8f-09fa-43d0-8795-29485e4edb5e@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: My son wants me to teach him Python From: Rick Johnson Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:47:23 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:47896 On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:08:44 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > No. Definitely not. Programming does NOT begin with a GUI. It begins > with something *simple*, so you're not stuck fiddling around with the > unnecessary. On today's computers, that usually means console I/O > (actually console output, with console input coming along much later). Chris, you're a dinosaur, only thing is, somebody forgot to tell you. *Everything* these days revolves around graphical interfaces. The console, which was once the dark and mystical battlefield where knighted geeks would slay the plagues of exception demons, has been reduced to a mere: "little black box of nostalgia". 1. Rock is dead... 2. The console is dead... 3. Welcome to the 21st century Chris! PS: Although i'll bet you think the "rock is dead" mantra is relatively recent, nope! Jim Morrison was singing about it waaay back in 1969!