Re: [seul-edu] It looks like I'm going to learn Python

[Rakis <rakis@wt.net>]

	There's two books from O'Reilly on Python. Get the thinner of the two
books. It's cheaper and will contain all the information (and more) you need.
Also, keep in mind while you're learning it, you don't kneed to know very much
about the language to be productive. My guess is that you'll want to learn how
to do the Object Oriented stuff but your students certainly won't need to. 
	
	Cheers,

	Rakis

On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, bgfay wrote:
> Wow! The first time I post, I get more replies than I would have ever expected.
> I have just finished reading through them and the overwhelming choice is Python
> and so, I will head over to O'Reilly's site and order a book. Time to get
> started!
> 
> Thanks also for the recommendations for Logo, Bash and the guile scheme. (If
> someone wanted to send me a private email explaining what a scheme is, I
> wouldn't mind. I'm not sure if everyone on the list wants to know.) I'll keep
> my mind open on these, but for starters I'm going to look at Python.
> 
> By the by, I'm not necessarily teaching computer science, just trying to show
> that the machine is a heck of a tool for math and maybe they will want to learn
> some more once they figure out how much they can control it.
> 
> Thanks again for all of the recommendations
> 
> -- 
> Brian G. Fay on Linux
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