Programming Tutorial for absolute beginners

[James]

If you're serious about this being a real introduction for someone who
knows nothing, then you might want to start off by explaining what a
programming language is (and why there are more than one) and then
what a standard library is - perhaps explain it in terms of a large
set of tools you can use straight away?

James

On 8 Apr 2006 11:53:34 -0700, Clodoaldo Pinto <clodoaldo.pinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
> > Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
> >
> > > "Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is
> > > used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared
> > > to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Some of its key distinguishing
> > > features include:..."
> >
> > I'd be careful with that definition for newbies though. There's nothing
> > more frustrating (as a newbie myself) when Python (or anything else) is
> > compared to something as a way to explain it, yet I have no idea what
> > the other things are either! A programming newbie won't know about, and
> > maybe won't even have heard of, those other languages.
>
> Good point. I used the Python site front page definition without the
> object oriented thing.
>
> Regars, Clodoaldo
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