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Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read)

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On 28/02/2016 11:04, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Actually, Python is supposed to be simple in that it does not need all
> the constructs to be learned to do basic stuff. However I found so far
> most tutorials are written by people who are very good at it, and not
> enough time is spend making it seem cuddly as the Sinclair books did, a
> bit at a time.

For "cuddly" tutorials, the Head First series of books is probably the 
closest I've found to the old Sinclair style, and they have one for Python:
<http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfpython/>

Unfortunately they're probably not so good if you're visually impaired, 
as they rely on a very graphical page layout style (kind of like the old 
Usborne books, but for a more mature audience...)

> Also like many of the languages, syntax is very strict,
> so is indenting etc. This in my view is bad for a language as a tiny
> mistake can generate runtime errors that seem completely impossible to
> understand.
> It needs an editor that can spot things as you go. It may well have this
> now, but since I'm now blind it could be that its inaccessible.

Certainly most decent programming text editors know Python syntax. But 
as you say, there's often not a lot they can do when you get your 
indentation wrong, because the result will often still be syntactically 
correct, and sadly they can't yet read your mind :)

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The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-21 09:33 -0800
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-21 20:57 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:04 +0000
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-22 12:00 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 07:38 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-27 13:22 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-02 02:19 -0800
          Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-02 13:58 +0000
            Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-06 22:55 -0800
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 10:25 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-07 07:03 -0800
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 15:33 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 17:37 +0000
              Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-07 18:41 +0000
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-13 08:55 -0700
                Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-03-13 16:44 +0000
  Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-22 11:01 +0000
    Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-02-26 08:34 -0800
      Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2016-02-28 11:04 +0000
        Re: The joy of DLAN (modern web devs please read) Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2016-02-28 11:34 +0000

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