Feedback desired on reworked ch 1 progr. intro (now Python 3.x, Windows)

[Alf P. Steinbach]

Hi all!

After my earlier feedback request a lot of you responded with constructive 
criticism and suggestions.

As a result of that I've changed the text to be based on *Python 3.x* instead of 
2.6+, and chapter 1 "Getting started" has grown from 9 pages to a whopping 11 pages!

I would particularly like to thank the following persons (although of course I 
don't know whether any of them would recommend the old text, or the new text! 
:-) ), because they directly caused changes of the text:

     Chris Rebert, in [comp.lang.python]
         Ch 1
             "all batteries included" -> "batteries included"
             "OS/X" -> "Mac OS X" (with a space, not a slash)
             "implementation" -> "distribution"

     Eric Brunel, in [comp.lang.python]
         Ch 1
             static type checking discussion yielding wrong impression

     bartc at freeuk.com, in [comp.lang.python]
         Ch 1
             Unclear that Windows subsystems are not something to do with Python.

     Ethan Furman, in private communication
         Ch 1
             Pointed out the renaming 2.6 "Tkinter" -> 3.x "tkinter"

     Jon Clements, in [comp.lang.python]
         General
             Info about Python 3.x that let me switch to 3.x

Plus, the person who suggested that I should mention the PSPad editor, but I 
forgot to note who that was (sorry).

I hope this new version of ch 1 is, well, better, addresses some of the concerns 
raised? <g>

     <url: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ProgrammingBookP3>
     Formats: PDF, text

Now starting on ch 2, which with Python 3.x should become a lot cleaner...


Cheers,

- Alf