If he is into games, you could try to look at Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, from Michael Dawson. It teaches Python through programming a set of simple games.
-- Tom, http://www.vscripts.net on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:54:32 +0200, you wrote: > 1) simple, and fun enough so that he can learn from it without my > continous assistence. (Of course, I can answer questions, but the idea > is that I don't want to walk him through all of it.) > > 2) doesn't look like it is teaching programming -- it should be more > like "playing with the computer, and having fun" style, with the > "learning programming" being a sort of side-effect. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor