[Techtalk] programming for beginners

[Gayathri Swaminathan]

Ah, I see now what you are asking.

Am not familiar with Turbo Basic - so your explanation helped clarify the
feature set.

Python shines as a good choice to understand some basics if you are new to
programming. Gold first programming language.

The command line IDE that comes along with Python is very educative. Meaning
it helps you try things/ learn things without having to know much about
programming.

Had the fortunate experience of attending class taught by Mark Lutz - author
of "programming python".

For GUI-ish choices, there are several projects such as
wxWidgets/wxDesigner...web frameworks such as Django, dabo, turbogears that
are interesting ways to learn python programming.

But this: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ was fun as well.

The Eclipse project recently introduced a "Visual editor" not long ago,
which is supposed to help one do easy JAVA gui programming

Drag drop things and code away in Java it seems ( not done it personally)

Gayathri

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> But how does that help a beginner who needs training wheels? I can't think
> of
> any examples for comparison other than Turbo Basic, so if you're not
> familiar
> with that, think Very Simple IDE with both drag n drop and manual editing
> and
> good documentation. Something you can fiddle around with and start making
> simple games in a short time, learn some good fundamentals, and then
> progress
> to more complex projects.
>
>
>
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Gayathri Swaminathan
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