RE: Do any of you recommend Python as a first programming language?

2008-03-26 Thread Carnell, James E
I vote a strong yes! I went through a MIS major and learned java first. This was a disaster for me typing these long nonsense lines (I didn't understand how classes and their members worked). Next was C and we had to use a command line and notepad to do all our programs. I really didn't learn

Noob: What is a slot? Me trying to understand another's code

2007-09-04 Thread Carnell, James E
I am thinking about purchasing a book, but wanted to make sure I could get through the code that implements what the book is about (Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach). Anyway, I'm not a very good programmer and OOP is still sinking in, so please don't answer my questions like I really

Image.open( C:\test.jpg) is this wrong ?

2007-08-27 Thread Carnell, James E
I am trying to simply open an image with PIL... My problem is that I don't know what my active directory is so I am putting an absolute path name in quotes. It can't find the specified file or directory. I'm horrible with docs. I also tried to save an image file (to find where it saved it,