[Tutor] Python information

[Scot W. Stevenson]

Hello Rob,=20

> I'll pose this question to the list (especially the newbies): What woul=
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> you like to see demonstrated in a tutorial for absolute programming
> newbies? Be as specific or as general as you like.

I was wondering if there would be any chance of creating "spot" tutorials=
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for added features in new releases, given that the rate of change means=20
that the paper people have little chance to catch up. These spot tutorial=
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[do pythons have spots?] could be organsized as "chapters" and should be=20
less of a chore to write than a whole book.

For example, the 2.2 version begs a tutorial on generators, which explain=
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the concept in prose, goes thru an example in pseudocode, and then shows=20
how it can be used to win friends and influence people. Everybody keeps=20
talking about how cool list comprehension is (and I live in deathly fear=20
that one day I will join them); since they seem to be set to become a=20
central tool, a short tutorial on how they work, what they can replace,=20
where they make sense, etc. would be great.

These short, specific tutorials would assume that you have a basic grasp=20
of "Core Python" but still think that "icon" is something that lives in a=
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Russian Orthodox church or on your desktop, a computer language. Ideally,=
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the would appear at the same time as the "What is new in Python *"-series=
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and be cross-referenced with it.

I don't think that my Python skills are good enough to actually write the=
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things, but I would be happy to help as a non-computer-scientist crash=20
test dummy on the examples and explanations...

Y, Scot

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  Scot W. Stevenson -- scot@possum.in-berlin.de -- Zepernick, Germany