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[gerrit]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:

> rzantow at my-deja.com writes:
> > the whole language, and buying more books. I'm really surprised there
> > are as many as 13 Python books on the market. I'd have thought there
> > was a need for maybe three, along with about two pamphlets and a poster.
>
> I'm not surprised, and think there's room for still more.  Hopefully
> the next wave of books will aim at specific topics: Python and
> {Tkinter,KDE,GTk+,wxWindows}, Python for numeric work, for Web stuff,
> for bioinformatics, for teaching programming, inside Zope, JPython for
> Java programmers who need to embed a scripting language, etc.

<...snip...>
I would like to see a book "Python for children". My children (9 and 11 years
old) are now learning Superlogo, with a dutch book "Programmeren voor Kinderen
deel 2 met Superlogo" (Programming for children part 2 with Superlogo). It is
quite detailed step by detailed step, too much detail for my taste.

Python plus tkinter could be as simple and (more) educational than Superlogo.
Of course the right level of interfaces should be supplied to make it succesful
(turtles, which is available, but also images sound and so on)

Regards Gerrit