Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2013-07-27 Thread aliencat777
On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 7:34:55 AM UTC+8, John Yeung wrote: > On Apr 6, 10:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" > > course for continuing education adults at a local community > > college. These would people with no programming experie

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <756dl.102831$ur4.35...@en-nntp-09.dc1.easynews.com>, Joel Koltner wrote: > If you want to emphasize web usage, I'd be tempted to show them a bit of > HTML and then introduce them to CGI-bin scripts... written in Python. Yes, and show them how to watch /var/log/apache2/error.log to fi

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread JBW
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:37:19 -0700, grkuntzmd wrote: > What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science" Franklin, Beedle & Associates, by little Johny Zelle. Accept no substitues! Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread tkp...@hotmail.com
I taught myself Python from Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner by Michael Dawson (which has been mentioned above) and with lots of help from the friendly members of this group, but there's now a free e-book titled Snake Wrangling for Kids by Jason Briggs. You can view it at http://www.bri

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread Joel Koltner
"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in message news:grhq75$eb...@lust.ihug.co.nz... > I thought that a good introduction might be to show them how HTML works, and > progress from there to embedding little bits of JavaScript. > > Nothing to do with Python I know, but might be a possibility. If you want t

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <8e3d0032-5e9f-44c2-9380-1d2383552...@u5g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-08 Thread John Yeung
On Apr 6, 10:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" > course for continuing education adults at a local community > college. These would people with no programming experience, > but I will require a reasonable facility with computers. > > What

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Apr 6, 9:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local  community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable > facility with computers. > > What

Re: Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-06 Thread Reckoner
On Apr 6, 7:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote: > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable > facility with computers. > > What

Q: "Best" book for teaching

2009-04-06 Thread grkuntzmd
I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for continuing education adults at a local community college. These would people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable facility with computers. What would be a good book to use as the text for the course?