My son wants me to teach him Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:46 AM, John Ladasky
<john_ladasky at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> He's a smart kid, but prefers to be shown, to be tutored, rather than having the patience to sit down and RTFM.  Have any of you been down this road before?  I would appreciate it if you would share your experiences, or provide resource material.
>

Actually yes! My dad (whose name is also John) asked me the same
question, regarding one of my siblings. I put the question to the
list, and got back a number of excellent and most useful answers
regarding book recommendations, and we ended up going with (if memory
serves me) Think Python [1]. It seems to be doing fine, though I've
overheard some issues regarding Tkinter, Python 3.3, and Debian
Squeeze. So be aware that you may have to compile your own Python, and
if you do, you may have to look at what modules get compiled in. But
from my experience of building Python, that's not difficult.

[1] http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ I think, but DNS on this
computer is broken at the moment so I can't verify that link

ChrisA