Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>How does >> >> http://beta.python.org/about/beginners/ >> >>look? >> > > > > Steve, > > This is a great writeup. Here are my comments: > > 1. "Fortunately Python is something that an experienced programmer of > another language (be it ..." > > Add C# and/or Java to this list. The current list might scare away a lot > of people ;). > I just went with "whatever it may be" as even less exclusive :-)
> 2. "also available as the python-list mailing list" > > Add "or a google group (link)". > Gimme the link! > 3. "You may want to find out which text editors* are tailored to make > Python editing* easy" > > Change at two places: > You may want to find out which text editors or IDEs > (http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments) are > tailored to make Python programming easy. > I added IDE's as a separate category - great idea! > 4. Typo: look for 'welcomne' > Fixed, thanks. > 5. There seems to be a great overlap between this and what could go in > the 'For Developers' section. Maybe we need only one section ('For > Developers'?) In general many pages with overlapping content confuse me > (and probably others) > Don't agree. Repetition is actually better that presenting each piece of information precisely once for many purposes. Anyway, I am also working on the developer section in parallel to improve the focus of that content. > 6. The 'About' page should have an additional section: > > Python is Popular > > Thousands of developers use Python to make themselves more productive in > application domains across the board - enterprise computing, web > development, game development, scientific and numerical computing, > embedded and mobile development and more. See `Success Stories` and > `Quotes` to discover more. > > Thanks, > Shalabh > Excellent, thanks! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list