Brand New!

[Nick Stinemates]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:35:54AM -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:40 -0300, agent E 10 <eddieatter at gmail.com>  
> escribió:
> > On Apr 14, 8:37 pm, Benjamin <musiccomposit... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Apr 14, 9:00 pm, agent E 10 <eddieat... at gmail.com> wrote:>    Hi,  
> >> I'm brand new to programming. Have any suggestions? I'm young.
> >> > Was it a good idea to start with python? I was planning on creating a
> >> > very simple program that asked yes/no questions for a school project.
> >>
> >> IMHO, Python is an excellent language to start with. Have you read the
> >> tutorial?http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
> >
> > No, I haven't. I have been reading off of this site
> > http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ is this a good site to
> > learn off of? About how long will it take me to learn the basics of
> > the language?
> 
> I'm unsure if teaching Javascript, VBScript and Python at the same time is  
> a good thing, I'd think one would get a language soup and mix all the  
> concepts, but if it works for you, go ahead.
> For other resources, see the beginners section in the Python wiki:  
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

I agree and disagree! As long as the student understands how the
different parts play together, and the Web medium is what gets him
interested in python, I don't see any harm!

That's a pretty big assumption though!

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