Mental Pandiculation » learn to program http://mentalpandiculation.com One Man's Attempt To Find Elegant Code Through Big Words Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:31:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Making It Easy To Learn Programming http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/01/making-it-easy-to-learn-programming/ http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/01/making-it-easy-to-learn-programming/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:29:05 +0000 Niklaus Wirth's Ghost http://mentalpandiculation.com/?p=226 Glenn Reynolds talks about a shortage of geeks and one of his readers comments that a key contribution to this is when computers stopped shipping with BASIC. Glenn makes the plea to computer makers to include BASIC on the computers as a public service. Of course, Macs already ship with both Python and Ruby, surely superior languages to BASIC and excellent learning languages as well.

On a Mac, all you have to do is fire up a terminal (Apple Key + Space Bar and then type “Terminal”), type “python” in the new terminal and you have a place to start learning programming. Work through the Python tutorial and you’re well on the way to becoming a novice Python programmer.

Of course, on a Windows machine you’re going to have to do a little more work because, well, it is Windows after all.

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