Re: Best Python book(s) for a pre-teen?

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Am 01.08.2013 14:11, schrieb beliavsky@aol.com:
> On Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:27:58 PM UTC-5, Mike Silva wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My son is 11 and wants to try programming, partly because it's what 
>> I
>> do for a living.  Even though I don't (yet?) use or even know 
>> Python,
>> through some unexplainable thought process I've decided it would be 
>> a
>> good language to start him off with.
>
> The Art of Problem Solving site, geared toward the best U.S. junior
> high and high school math students, offers a 10-week "Introduction to
> Programming" class
> http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/School/classlist.php that uses
> Python. There are weekly lectures in an online classroom and graded
> homework assignments. My 10yo boy is taking the class. But he tells 
> me
> JavaScript is his favorite language :).

I would have a look at this one: 
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/csclub/book.pdf. If you like it you can 
still buy the print version.

sas

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