Re: Geezer learns python

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On 04/03/2014 23:03, notbob wrote:
> I'm trying to learn python.  I'm doing it via Zed Shaw's Learn Python
> the Hard Way.  Sure enough, 16 lessons in and I've run aground.  Is it
> OK for a painfully stupid ol' fart to ask painfully stupid noob
> questions, here?  I'm a long time usenet fan and prefer it to irc.
>
> I've run Slackware for many yrs and know jes enough bash to get the
> drift of a slack script, but am no programmer, not by any stretch of
> the imagination.  I really wanna succeed on this one and have signed
> up for an online python class from Rice U.  I'd like to finish Zed's
> tutorial by the 24th of this month.  I'm retired, so have the time to
> burn.  Thnx.  ;)
>
> nb
>

You might feel more comfortable on the tutor mailing list 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

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Geezer learns python notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-03-04 23:03 +0000
  Re: Geezer learns python Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2014-03-04 15:05 -0800
  Re: Geezer learns python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 10:10 +1100
  Re: Geezer learns python Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 16:11 -0700
  Re: Geezer learns python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-04 23:27 +0000
  Re: Geezer learns python "Mark H. Harris" <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-04 20:03 -0800
  Re: Geezer learns python David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-03-05 18:52 +1100

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