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On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Mark Rages wrote:
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*.
OK, but it starts right in with "string literals," which are not defined,
and, when starting at Chapter 3, it assumes that the reader knows how to
evoke the interpreter.
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.
Well, that's good to know, but so far the Ruby tutorial is winning because
it doesn't seem to assume that the reader has any experience with
programming whatsoever, and that is what I'm looking for.
If he's going to do much with programming, he should learn a few languages
anyway. I guess we could start with Ruby, then add Python, then go to
something really deep like C or Lisp.
Mike
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