[Tutor] total beginner!!!

[tpc at csua.berkeley.edu]

hi Jacques, so was I up until 8 months ago, a newbie just
like you, and then I read Danny Yoo's "A Quick Introduction to Python"
and am now an upper low-level newbie ;-)  I have not hacked into the FBI
computers because I don't want to go to jail, and I want to use a computer
after I get out ;-)  A computer program is a series of instructions to
the Central Processing Unit, like a simple:

print "Hello World"

will say "Hello World" to your screen.

You can get started by downloading and installing Python if you are on
Windows, or it comes standard with most distributions of Linux.  If you
want to know stuff they don't show you on television, the super 53/<R37
stuff they try to keep under wraps you should type at the Python command
line:

import this