[Tutor] Self-intro and two short newbie questions

2010-03-18 Thread Kevin Kirton
Hi all, I've committed myself to learning Python and have started reading "Learning Python" (Mark Lutz) and looking through various online resources. My career so far has involved a little high school teaching and about 10 years of translating Japanese to English, but no programming or coding. I'

Re: [Tutor] Self-intro and two short newbie questions

2010-03-18 Thread Kevin Kirton
Thanks very much for the responses. I feel encouraged now to try to create the guitar tuner program by myself first, and then the simple turtle art program after that. It's kind of both exhilarating and daunting that I don't know exactly where to start at the moment, but that's the fun of learning

[Tutor] Any

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Kirton
ot; I mean something that people actually use, hopefully something that comes with it's own installer and GUI. I'd like to try out using the program as an ordinary user and then I want to look at the source code to see how it's been achieved. Any ideas or suggestions

Re: [Tutor] Any

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Kirton
Christian Witts wrote: > Maybe look through projects at Freshmeat [1]. > > [1] http://freshmeat.net/tags/python That's exactly what I was looking for. I've already selected a few small programs and now I plan on installing them, seeing how they operate from a user's perspective, then I'll take a

Re: [Tutor] Any

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Kirton
Alan Gauld wrote: > But if thats not enough try both sourceforge and the PyGame web sites. > On sourceforge search for projects using python... DIA is one that springs > to mind(a Visio type drawing program) > > PyGame has lots of Python games you can download, several with source. PyGame looks p