[Sugar-devel] Python tutorial for Pippy

[samir menon]

"You could not have picked better words to say to a teacher (though
"here's a million dollars" would also be nice), so thank you. :)"

Your very welcome!

Just an idea on the last TODO in your program: Implementing multi-line programs:
Implement a gtk window that has a text input area so that the user can
format easily.

~Samir

On Monday, June 28, 2010, Dinko Galetic <dinko.galetic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:47 PM, samir menon <menon.samir at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have been looking for something like this for quite a while. I am going to try to teach my little brother, (about 10) , to learn programming, and this seems like the perfect way to do it.
> You could not have picked better words to say to a teacher (though "here's a million dollars" would also be nice), so thank you. :)
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> -I am on python 3.1, was this written in 2.6 or something?
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> Yes, that's right (2.6), it's not a Windows/Linux thing.
> If you're interested in teaching your brother Python 3.x, lowercase() got replaced with ascii_lowercase(), and "print something" now has to be "print(something)". Python 2.6 supports both "print x" and "print(x)", however I chose the former approach in my tutorial because it's a bit simpler and I can postpone explaining functions a bit. I plan to show that "print(x)" also works, but after the lesson on functions.
>  Other than that (by looking at your code) I see that this is an awesome program!
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> Glad to hear it. Stick around - I'll be posting the rest of my lessons when I get enough thumbs-up on this one.
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> Kind regards,
> Dinko Galetic
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