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04-06-09, 03:37 PM
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I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for
continuing education adults at a local community college. These would people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable facility with computers. What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? Thanks. |
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#2
04-06-09, 03:50 PM
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On Apr 6, 7:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable > facility with computers. > > What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? > > Thanks. QuickPython is pretty good, but might be somewhat above the level you're looking for. Depends on the class. You might want to use it to guide a selection of topics. |
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04-07-09, 07:40 PM
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On Apr 6, 9:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable > facility with computers. > > What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? > > Thanks. If they ever release it, this book might be good: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Co...29498&sr= 8-1 Zelle's Python Programming book is pretty good (and was written by a college professor) and I've heard good things about ORielly's Learning Python by Lutz. - Mike |
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04-08-09, 12:34 AM
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On Apr 6, 10:37 am, grkunt...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" > course for continuing education adults at a local community > college. These would people with no programming experience, > but I will require a reasonable facility with computers. > > What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? For an extremely gentle introduction, perhaps take a look at _Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner_ by Michael Dawson: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Program.../dp/1592000738 A coworker of mine recently bought this book, which is how I found out about it. Besides assuming no programming experience, it tries to stay interesting through the use of simple games for its examples (eventually building up to the use of the popular pygame library). The writing style is definitely more "fun" than "academic". John |
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#5
04-08-09, 10:19 AM
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In message
<8e3d0032-5e9f-44c2-9380-1d2383552046>, grkuntzmd wrote: > I am considering teaching an "introduction to programming" course for > continuing education adults at a local community college. These would > people with no programming experience, but I will require a reasonable > facility with computers. I thought that a good introduction might be to show them how HTML works, and progress from there to embedding little bits of JavaScript. Nothing to do with Python I know, but might be a possibility. |
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#6
04-08-09, 07:32 PM
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"Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo_zealand> wrote in message
news:ebn2 > I thought that a good introduction might be to show them how HTML works, and > progress from there to embedding little bits of JavaScript. > > Nothing to do with Python I know, but might be a possibility. If you want to emphasize web usage, I'd be tempted to show them a bit of HTML and then introduce them to CGI-bin scripts... written in Python. Something like Django might be fun to show as well, although such "full featured" content management systems are really a course unto themselves. (And if you're used Python scripts on the server and played with, e.g., MySQL a little, it'll be clear that things like Django are just greatly expanded versions of what they're doing themselves.) ---Joel |
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#7
04-08-09, 08:11 PM
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I taught myself Python from Python Programming for the Absolute
Beginner by Michael Dawson (which has been mentioned above) and with lots of help from the friendly members of this group, but there's now a free e-book titled Snake Wrangling for Kids by Jason Briggs. You can view it at http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/writing...ling-for-kids/. There are versions for Windows, Mac and Linux, though it is focused on Python 2.x. Thomas Philips |
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#8
04-08-09, 09:52 PM
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:37:19 -0700, grkuntzmd wrote:
> What would be a good book to use as the text for the course? "Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science" Franklin, Beedle & Associates, by little Johny Zelle. Accept no substitues! Jim |
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#9
04-08-09, 11:42 PM
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In message <756Dl.102831$UR4.35979>, Joel
Koltner wrote: > If you want to emphasize web usage, I'd be tempted to show them a bit of > HTML and then introduce them to CGI-bin scripts... written in Python. Yes, and show them how to watch /var/log/apache2/error.log to find their errors. :) mod_python could also be fun. |
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