On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:21:45 -0000, News123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No my question does anybody know a nice beginners book (or a learning CD or on line tutorial)? Ideally it shouldn't be too serious and have a lot of small nice mini-examples
For just pottering around with, your friend could do worse than the LiveWires Python Course. It doesn't go far into general programming skills, largely because its designed for 12-15 year old kids to get through in about three days of concentrated effort, but it will help to learn the basics of Python and programming in general. Caveat: the worksheets are built around Python 2.x (for small values of x!), tell your friend not to use Python 3.0. This is one of the few cases where it really matters that 'print' is now a function; nothing freaks a beginner like his output not behaving the way he's been told it should. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list