Python book for Dad?

[Louis Mamakos]

Maybe take a look at "Learn Python The Hard Way" and see if that's
what you had in mind.  http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

louie

On Jun 6, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

> 
> Heya folks,
> 
> My father (retired PhD metallurgist) has expressed an interest in a
> "gentle introduction to Python" sort of book.
> 
> He's not a hardcore programmer, and what programming experience he has
> is mostly confined to FORTRAN (probably II and IV, not even 77) so
> positional significance will not be entirely foreign to him, but he's
> coming at this as a smart guy with little exposure to modern
> languages.
> 
> I wasn't able to get him to share with me what he expects to do with
> this, but given sufficient time and motivation things like a Raspberry
> Pi talking MIDI to the organ at church (the organ at home is a
> first-generation Allen computer organ and predates MIDI), process
> control thermometers for making jam, or other exploits are not out of
> the question.
> 
> I won't reject books that are targeted at kids out of hand, but
> considering the audience he may find stuff with a more advanced scope
> of problems than one would give to junior high school students more
> engaging.
> 
> Computer at home is a Mac, so Python 2.7 (or maybe 2.6 on his) comes
> pre-installed.
> 
> Anyone got some thoughts on good books to point him at?  Dead Tree
> Edition is preferred to online stuff.
> 
> -r
> 
> 
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