[Tutor] Looking for some guidance.

[Joshua Banks]

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On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:36 pm, Alan Gauld wrote:

> Yes, its called practice!
> Seriously the best way to learn to program is to take the examples
> in the boooks and extend them in diffreent ways.
>
> If the example prints the 12 times table, change it to print
> the 9 times table, then to do it in a different format, then to
> print the squares from 1 to 12 instead. Just little changes but
> by making those changes you reinforce the ideas and prove to
> yourself that you really understand what's happening.
>
> Finally don't try to run before you walk. A GUI interface may
> look nice but trying to add one too soon will simply distract
> you from the fundamentals.

Great. Thanks for the suggestions Alan.

Well it looks like I might have found a book thats right up my alley. It 
looks really good. Its doing Python by example through the whole book.. 
Called "Python Programming for the absolute beginner" by Michael Dawson

I'm running Python 2.3.3 on both Windows and Linux and this book comes 
with 2.2.3. I'll just make sure that I check out the "Whats New in 
Python 2.3 .pdf" that came with Python 2.3.3.

Joshua Banks
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