Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.184 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.70; '*S*': 0.07; 'python.': 0.02; 'python,': 0.02; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'assignments.': 0.16; 'partly': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'all,': 0.19; 'version.': 0.19; 'mike': 0.22; 'print': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'junior': 0.24; 'tells': 0.24; 'math': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'class.': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'subject:) ': 0.29; 'class': 0.32; 'problem': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'programming,': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'solving': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'even': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'son': 0.61; 'high': 0.63; 'decided': 0.64; 'school': 0.64; 'taking': 0.65; 'url:pdf': 0.68; 'online': 0.71; 'u.s.': 0.71; 'subjectcharset:utf-8': 0.72; ':).': 0.84; 'homework': 0.84; 'sas': 0.84; 'url:canterbury': 0.84; 'url:php': 0.85; 'subject:Best': 0.91; 'url:nz': 0.93; 'students,': 0.95 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:02:52 +0100 From: ishish To: Subject: Re: Best Python book(s) for a =?UTF-8?Q?pre-teen=3F?= In-Reply-To: References: <20619edc.0302181127.6ad39e68@posting.google.com> X-Sender: ishish@domhain.de User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.7.1 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1375367920 news.xs4all.nl 16000 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35713 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51736 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