[python-advocacy] Python as a 1st Lang. Tutorial in Chicago

[Michael Tobis]

I decided to set up a requirement that people show up with a laptop
with python installed, and knowing how to run helloworld.py from a
file and the equivalent at the interactive prompt.

Python is easy enough to install on a given platform, but supporting
both major commercial platforms and every imaginable flavor of unix in
an installation meeting was something I didn't want to take on.

In my opinion this worked out well enough.

Sorry for the bad URL transcription. I should know better than to type
a URL when I can paste it.

Try http://webpages.cs.luc.edu/~mt/pyfl/pyfl.html

mt


On 3/29/06, sdeibel <sdeibel at wingware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Michael Tobis wrote:
> > You can see the slides I showed up with at
> > http://webpages.luc.edu/~mt/pyfl/pyfl.html
>
> This doesn't seem to be a valid hostname at the moment -- is this
> definitely correct?
>
> Thanks for posting your experiences!  I've been toying with the
> idea of some sort of Python install / intro fest aimed at making
> it easy for technical non-programmers and beginners to get into
> actually writing some code.
>
> - Stephan
>
>