Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread Francois Dion
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote: > On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI > interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? Does it have graphics > libraries that allow one to animate the

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread ALAN GAULD
> I did a lot of programming in Fortran 77 while working on my Ph.D. in > engineering mechanics > >That's OK, it's not permanent damage. :-) > >> (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI >> interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? > >No idea what an

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread lconrad
on line Python courses with labs google "python the hard way" udemy.com also has python courses https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python google "free online python programming classes courses" Len On Friday 11/01/2013 at 3:18 pm, Gary L. Gray

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread Gary L. Gray
On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote: >> Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm >> finding it a bit rough using the python.org >> tutorials. > > You don't tell us your starting point. > > Are you

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote: Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org tutorials. You don't tell us your starting point. Are you experienced in programming in other languages or is python your

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread jh
There is also this - http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0 From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+xperimental22=gmail@python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Rogers Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:11 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python Hello all, I've began my jo

Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python

2013-01-11 Thread Femi Banjo
Not Books but have you tried any of the online learning courses? They're free and look very good from my equally beginner perspective as I struggle through them(allow more time than you think :[ ) www.coursera.org www.edx.org www.udacity.com all very good, take you pick! From: quent...@gmail.co