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Re: My son wants me to teach him Python

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Date 2013-06-13 06:02 +1000
Subject Re: My son wants me to teach him Python
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3123.1371067375.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, John Ladasky
<john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> He's a smart kid, but prefers to be shown, to be tutored, rather than having the patience to sit down and RTFM.  Have any of you been down this road before?  I would appreciate it if you would share your experiences, or provide resource material.
>

Actually yes! My dad (whose name is also John) asked me the same
question, regarding one of my siblings. I put the question to the
list, and got back a number of excellent and most useful answers
regarding book recommendations, and we ended up going with (if memory
serves me) Think Python [1]. It seems to be doing fine, though I've
overheard some issues regarding Tkinter, Python 3.3, and Debian
Squeeze. So be aware that you may have to compile your own Python, and
if you do, you may have to look at what modules get compiled in. But
from my experience of building Python, that's not difficult.

[1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ I think, but DNS on this
computer is broken at the moment so I can't verify that link

ChrisA

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My son wants me to teach him Python John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-12 12:46 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:02 +1000
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-12 15:07 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 16:23 -0400
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:34 +1000
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-06-12 15:06 -0700
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 16:22 -0600
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-06-12 14:31 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 09:34 +1000
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 21:00 -0700
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 14:08 +1000
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 21:47 -0700
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Andrew Berg <robotsondrugs@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 00:23 -0500
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> - 2013-06-12 23:30 -0600
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-06-12 22:48 -0700
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 14:53 +1000
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-06-14 11:05 +1000
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 01:35 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 18:43 +1000
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:01 -0700
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-06-13 09:07 -0400
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 06:37 -0700
        Python biases [was Re: My son wants me to teach him Python] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-14 00:44 +0000
          Re: Python biases [was Re: My son wants me to teach him Python] rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 20:31 -0700
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Tomasz Rola <rtomek@ceti.pl> - 2013-06-13 17:37 +0200
      Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-14 01:23 +0000
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-06-14 12:43 +1000
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-06-13 18:44 -0700
        Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-06-14 20:00 -0400
    Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 21:08 +0100
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 10:34 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python russ.pobox@gmail.com - 2013-06-13 12:03 -0700
  Re: My son wants me to teach him Python aliencat777@gmail.com - 2013-07-27 05:25 -0700

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