Looking for good beginner's tutorial

[Roy Smith]

My wife wants to learn Python. Can anybody suggest a good tutorial
for her to read? She's a PhD molecular biologist who is a pretty
advanced Unix user. She mucks about with Perl scripts doing things
like text processing and even some simple CGI scripts, but has no
formal programming training.

I looked at Dive Into Python, but it's going to be way over her head.
I didn't think the tutorial on www.python.org would do it for her
either. Any other suggestions I might look at?

[BartlebyScrivener]

Re: Looking for good beginner's tutorial

It's deja vu all over again. If the link breaks, search the group
non-programming tutorial

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/4b7a01e1feb128fa/a6b51baa0ca01c19?q=fehily+&rnum=10#a6b51baa0ca01c19

Good luck

bs

Roy Smith wrote:[color=blue]
> My wife wants to learn Python. Can anybody suggest a good tutorial
> for her to read? She's a PhD molecular biologist who is a pretty
> advanced Unix user. She mucks about with Perl scripts doing things
> like text processing and even some simple CGI scripts, but has no
> formal programming training.
>
> I looked at Dive Into Python, but it's going to be way over her head.
> I didn't think the tutorial on www.python.org would do it for her
> either. Any other suggestions I might look at?[/color]

[Kent Johnson]

Re: Looking for good beginner's tutorial

Roy Smith wrote:[color=blue]
> My wife wants to learn Python. Can anybody suggest a good tutorial
> for her to read? She's a PhD molecular biologist who is a pretty
> advanced Unix user. She mucks about with Perl scripts doing things
> like text processing and even some simple CGI scripts, but has no
> formal programming training.[/color]

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers

Kent

[Roy Smith]

Re: Looking for good beginner's tutorial

In article <438ce39e$1_1@n ewspeer2.tds.ne t>, Kent Johnson <kent37@tds.net >
wrote:
[color=blue]
> Roy Smith wrote:[color=green]
> > My wife wants to learn Python. Can anybody suggest a good tutorial
> > for her to read? She's a PhD molecular biologist who is a pretty
> > advanced Unix user. She mucks about with Perl scripts doing things
> > like text processing and even some simple CGI scripts, but has no
> > formal programming training.[/color]
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Beginner...NonProgrammers
> Kent[/color]

That looks like just what I need, thanks! I even see two tutorials aimed
at bioinformatics people, which hit the spot perfectly.