Re: [MLUG] good intro to programming for a teenager?

[Mark Rages <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 8/8/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> >     http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
> 
> Cool.  It's written for Ruby.
> 
> What do you guys think?  Is Ruby as good a choice as Python?  The tutorial
> using Ruby looks pretty nice -- I can definitely imagine him getting into
> that one.  Is there a similar intro tutorial for Python?
> 
> Mike
> 

For Python, there is GvR's tutorial at http://python.org/doc/tut/ 

Looking at it now, it looks like they've filled the first and second
chapters with minutiae on interpreter execution!  What a pleasant way
to start a tutorial!

So let me amend that to say, follow the tutorial at
http://python.org/doc/tut/, *starting at Chapter 3*.

Ruby is as good a language as Python, probably better.  I would still
choose Python for a beginner, because it comes with a lot of libraries
bundled, so you can do interesting things without downloading and
installing extra packages.

Regards,
Mark
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