>> Should I advise him to
>> stick with 2.6 for a bit, since most of the material out there will
>> be for 2.x? Or since he's learning from scratch, should he jump
>> straight to 3.x In which case what can you recommend for him to work
>> through - I must stress he has absolutely no clue at all
Le Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:49:52 +,
Stephen Nelson-Smith s'exprima ainsi:
> My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
> Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
> "hello world" gives a syntax error
>
> He's an absolute beginner with no program
>> i get asked this question a lot, esp. when it pertains to my book,
>> "Core Python Programming." which should i learn? is your book
>> obsolete? etc. i basically tell them that even though they are
>> backwards-incompatible, it's not like Python 2 and 3 are so
>> different that you wouldn't
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:37 AM, wesley chun wrote:
> >> My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
> >> Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
> >> "hello world" gives a syntax error
> >>
> >> He's an absolute beginner with no programming ex
>> My brother in law is learning python. He's downloaded 3.1 for
>> Windows, and is having a play. It's already confused him that print
>> "hello world" gives a syntax error
>>
>> He's an absolute beginner with no programming experience at all. I
>> think he might be following 'Python Progra
I started as an absolute beginner to with programming with Python 3. I
remain a beginner but I've now installed 2.6 as well, because I found that
some of the modules I wanted to use weren't available for 3.x.
My personal experience was that the available literature/tutorials wasn't
really a proble
"Stephen Nelson-Smith" wrote
Beginner", or perhaps some online guides. Should I advise him to
stick with 2.6 for a bit, since most of the material out there will
be for 2.x? Or since he's learning from scratch, should he jump
straight to 3.x
Version 3 support is getting there but I still
Ahoy!
On Sa, 2009-11-14 at 20:49 +, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
> He's an absolute beginner with no programming experience at all. I
> think he might be following 'Python Programming for the Absolute
> Beginner", or perhaps some online guides. Should I advise him to
> stick with 2.6 for a bi
