Python for non-programmers

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 01-Mar-00 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
[A long, and still very interesting article about the problems of 
 teaching Python to a non-programmer, especially pointing out the
 geeky language used in the official tutorial]

I do understand that it doesn't work to hand the tutorial to a non-
programmer. I would never dream of doing that to my wife. She's a 
teacher (history, literature, and the Swedish language). But I think
that I could try to start with "Instant Hacking - Learn how to program 
with Python" at 

  http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~mlh/python/programming.html

written by Magnus Lie Hetland. Magnus has also written a tutorial 
called "Instant Python" that perhaps could be the next step. It is 
found at

  http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~mlh/python/instant.html

All this assumes she is interested in programming, which she is not 
(yet). Of course I would still have to help her through, though.

Good luck!

/Mikael

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