Early retirement project?

[Tim Chase]

On 2014-01-21 00:00, xeysxeys at gmail.com wrote:
> Well, I retired early, and I guess now I've got some spare time to
> learn about programming, which always seemed rather mysterious. I
> am using an old mac as my main computer, and it runs os x 10.4 is
> this too old? It fills my needs, and I am on a fixed income and
> can't really afford to buy another. I think python would be a good
> starter language, based on what I've read on the net.

It's certainly a great way to consume lots of hours :)

Mac OS X 10.4 should come with an older version of Python
out-of-the-box.  The install media should also include XCode if you
want to download the latest & greatest version of Python and install
that from source instead.

-tkc