Thanks, Barry. This looks like just the right thing. The only problem may be the timing,since it starts about a month too soon relative the ending of the school year. But have sent the info for him to look into.
John V. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 07:54:29PM -0500, Barry McClendon wrote: > John, > > See if he might be interested in this course: > https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython > > Barry > > On Apr 6, 2013, at 6:22 PM, John Velman <vel...@cox.net> wrote: > > > Reply-To: > > > > I'm looking for a way to get a bright (of course) high school student > > started with Python. He has a recent iMac. He is pretty computer literate, > > and knows the names of some computer languages, but no experience in > > programming, and little experience with text editing per se. He is > > particularly interested in games. Is at a stage of trying to decide what he > > is going to do in college, and was asking me about getting started with > > computer programming. > > > > I recommend Python as a good starting language. It would be nice if there > > was a simple IDE that works with python without a lot of setting up > > options, moving things around in the file system, and so on. I don't want > > to throw him into Vim or Emacs. > > > > I'd like him to get to something interesting (GUI, very simple games) soon. > > I showed him some examples from Pythonista on my iPad, and he was impressed > > at what could be done in ~ 100 lines of Python. > > > > For now, it would be really nice if he could work with the Python already > > on his iMac, and minimal other setup. Maybe the TKInter that comes with the > > iMac would also be a place to start GUI. It looks like installing > > TextWrangler might be a good choice for an editor. Or just plain TextEdit? > > > > I've looked at PyGames, and done a little other googling, and every place > > I've looked says install this, install that, use Home Brew, use Ports, > > don't use Ports, be sure and set such and such an option, be sure and get a > > version greater than x.y...Things that I might do, but I've been at this, > > at least part time, more or less forever. > > > > We need something than one can just do, and then learn while doing. Well, > > something Mac like. > > > > (I myself haven't used Python much for a while, am trying to develop one > > good app in Objective C on an hour or so a day. I use the Xcode IDE, Vim > > outside of Xcode. Am personally a dynasaur, am mailing this via Mutt.) > > > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > > > > John V. > > _______________________________________________ > > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG