On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:46:13 PM UTC-5, John Ladasky wrote: >> [...] >> He's a smart kid, but prefers to be shown, to be tutored, >> rather than having the patience to sit down and RTFM. >> Have any of you been down this road before? I would >> appreciate it if you would share your experiences, or >> provide resource material. > > Hello John. > > I'm going to suggest a completely different path to enlightenment for the > lad. A path that has the potential for semi-instant gratification whilst also > humbling the boy to the grim realities of computer graphics and application > development. *evil grin* > > Since your son has zero experience with both graphical and application based > programming i would suggest starting at (near) the very bottom of the GUI > spectrum, which, in the Python world would be the Tkinter Canvas.
No. Definitely not. Programming does NOT begin with a GUI. It begins with something *simple*, so you're not stuck fiddling around with the unnecessary. On today's computers, that usually means console I/O (actually console output, with console input coming along much later). ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
