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[stephani schielke]

I'd be interested in some Python...I already know how to program, my problem
is sitting down and focusing on one thing long enough to learn it. If you're
teaching a course(even a basic, learn-to-program one) in Python, that gives
me motivation AND focus.  Count me in.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> Jacinta Richardson writes:
> > A few people have contacted me off list and asked whether I'll be
> covering how
> > to program.  I haven't given this a lot of thought, but rather than just
> > replying individually with the same thing I thought I'd summarise my
> thoughts
> > about that here.
>
> Are there a lot of people interested in a course in how to program?
> How about if it was in another language: Python or Javascript?
> If so, which of those two languages would you prefer?
>
> If there's a lot of interest, I could give a few intro lessons on
> programming basics before Jacinta starts her Perl course in July,
> but Perl isn't really my language. I've done a little in Perl, but
> not enough to teach it (I'll be following Jacinta's course since
> I'm sure I'll learn new and interesting stuff).
>
> For those not familiar with the tradeoffs of various languages:
> Python has an especially clean syntax and is very easy to learn.
> It's great for quick programs run from the command-line, but you
> can write big graphical apps with it too.
> Javascript isn't quite as clean, but it runs in the browser so you
> can use it to run scripts inside web pages, and that makes it easy
> to show off your JS hacks to your friends or the world.
>
>        ...Akkana
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Stephani Schielke