[ubuntu-uk] Programming in Python User Interface

[Michael Devenish]

I'm currently learning python using "Python Programming for the absolute
beginner" by Michael Dawson. This is very good IMO as is teaches Python
programming by writing games; the last chapter shows you how to write a
version of asteroids using pygame. I've just downloaded the dive into python
book so will have a look at that. I've also bought the head first series of
python books - Head First Programming and Head First Python - which seem to
be very good. I'd recommend searching on amazon for python programming and
reading people's reviews.

I'd recommend using IDLE (with the version of Python you're learning) as the
interactive mode is very useful for learning python. I find this really good
for trying out functions. IDLE is in the Ubuntu repository.

Just be aware that Ubuntu is Python 2 based and most new books are for
Python 3. So you may need to type "python3 my_python_program.py" to run the
program from a command line, otherwise you may get errors as Python2 is
different to Python3.


Michael Devenish


On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Chris Rowson
<christopherrowson at gmail.com>wrote:

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>> I'm trying to learn any Programming language. I heard Python is good for
>> beginners and that's where I want to start
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> The Python tutor mailing list is helpful if you get stuck on something:
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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> Chris
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> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
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