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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?
Nov 29 '05 #1
3 1484
It's deja vu all over again. If the link breaks, search the group
non-programming tutorial

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....b51baa0ca01c19

Good luck

bs

Roy Smith wrote:
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?


Nov 29 '05 #2
Roy Smith wrote:
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.


http://wiki.python.org/moin/Beginner...NonProgrammers
Kent
Nov 29 '05 #3
In article <43**********@n ewspeer2.tds.ne t>, Kent Johnson <ke****@tds.net >
wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
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.


http://wiki.python.org/moin/Beginner...NonProgrammers
Kent


That looks like just what I need, thanks! I even see two tutorials aimed
at bioinformatics people, which hit the spot perfectly.
Nov 30 '05 #4

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