[Tutor] Really Newbie! (fwd)

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:20:32PM -0800, Danny Yoo wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> You probably meant to post on the Tutor mailing list.  You can do this by
> emailing "tutor@python.org".  The email "tutor-admin@python.org" only goes
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> I'll forward your message to the rest of the list.
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> Good luck to you!
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:16:05 -0500
> From: Jeff Jones <thejoness3@home.com>
> To: tutor-admin@python.org
> Subject: Really Newbie!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a real newbie to the programming world; therefore, I have a million
> questions. I will start with just a few. First, I am using O'Reilly's
> Learning Python and the book tells me (as well as other tutorials) that I
> need to set my system environment path. However, I am am not exactly sure
> what the outcome of performing this action will be. Should it allow me to
> run python modules and programs from the C:\ prompt? 

Yes.

Secondly, What are
> the major differences between the different text editors? Which one might
> you recommend to a newbie? 

The 2 most popular editors are vim (www.vim.org) and emacs (emacs.org).
I personally prefer vim, which is incidentally is also scriptable in
python, unlike emacs. However, both are rather complex, so if you don't
figure them out right away, you should probably use one of those
slightly souped-up editors like notepad+ or ultraedit.. They're almost
as simple as notepad but give you extra niceties like syntax
highlighting, etc.

Thank you, in advance, to anyone that takes the
> time to help the ignorant.
> 
> Jeff Jones
> 
> 
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