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

[Jason Sessler <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

There's also an online book for Intro to Programming using Java

http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/

Even has a PDF version you can download if you do not want to go through
the html pages.


On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:43 -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> 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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