[ale] good python tutorial (Geoffrey)

[rymarshall at gmail.com (Ryan Marshall)]

>
> Hey folks, I'm looking for a good python tutorial for a college student.
> ?My daughter, sophomore at GA Tech ( THWG! :) ) is a Biology major, but
> is required to take one CS class. ?Any pointers would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey


Take a look at learnpythonthehardway.org   It's Zed Shaw's rebuttal to
Dive into Python, which is ok if you're coming from a CS background,
but horrible for new programmers.

Contrary to it's name, it's not that bad.  Past that, the O'Reilly
book Learning Python is pretty good too.