Teaching the art of programming, in python

[Bernhard Reiter]

In article <slrn8er3fd.fcd.r2d2 at shaka.acc.umu.se>,
	r2d2 at shaka.acc.umu.se (Niklas Frykholm) writes:
>>>> And all in 24 hours?
>>>> This is as misleading as the dummy attribute.
>>
>>> I don't think so.  You can go at your own speed.  The book is broken up
>>> into 24 chapters, each taking more or less than an hour to read.  
>>
>>Well I guess that a good speed would be 14 days, then. :)
>>With two hour lections plus time to exercise.
> 
> As an interesting side note, a publisher here in Sweden has
> recently started a 10-minute series, with titles such as
> "Teach your self Internet in 10 minutes". Seems there is
> inflation (or perhaps deflation) in these things.

Just discovered that Peter Novig wrote some nice chapters about it
	http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
Excerpt:
| Why is everyone in such a rush?
| 
| Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java
| in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual
| Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours.
| I did a search 
[..]
| The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn
| about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to
| learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn
| Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days or
| hours. 

> And it _is_ a silly practice. But then again, corporate
> silliness doesn't surprise me that much anymore.

:)
Bernhard

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