[Tutor] Learning Python ...Books

2010-08-13 Thread Stephen Farthing
Hi everyone, I am going to learn both Python and Ruby so I can see what suits me best. My ultimate aim is to do some open source cross platform development for my ham radio and robotics hobbies. One of the key requirements is to be able to control hardware, via USB, using a GUI. I am an old scho

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 78, Issue 68

2010-08-14 Thread Stephen Farthing
Guys, Thanks for all the helpI am working my way through "Snake wrangling for kids" as a start. I downloaded Netbeans and installed the plug in as Idle will not load on my 64 bit Windows 7. And I have WXPython 2.8 plus the examples to play with. Life is good in rainy England, Steve _