RE: Good resource for beginning programmers

Hi Alex,
We should probably keep our musings on list, so the Python experts can chime in.

Jim

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Hi, Jim

I reread my post just now and see how what I wrote could be
interpreted that way.  I meant I would be spending those hours
listening to the lectures.  I figured if someone wanted to do it too,
they would do it on their own time and we'd exchange
notes/observations via e-mail whenever time permitted.  Very sorry
about the lack of clarity there.

Alex M

On 11/17/10, Homme, James <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> I'm interested, but I don't have the time to schedule sitting down for hours
> at a time. If you'd like to exchange notes here and there and sort of go
> through something at the same time, I welcome that. It's good to think about
> having a partner to bounce thoughts around with. Maybe we could create a
> plan to go through some of the material and sit down for maybe a half hour a
> week to encourage one another.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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> Subject: Good resource for beginning programmers
>
> Hi, folks,
>
> Thought I'd share this.  I don't know how many of you may know this
> but MIT puts a bunch of their courses on a site that they make
> available to everyone called OCW which is short for Open Courseware.
> I've found a nice link in this site to their Introduction to Computer
> Science and Programming course which was taught in fall 2008.  It's a
> whole semester's worth of lectures, assignments, readings and so
> forth.  Most of us probably can't afford to take time off our jobs and
> attend MIT but, we can still get the benefit of some of their excelent
> curriculum this way.  I think it beats just reading a book and
> learning that way.  Posting the link below.  The language they use for
> this course is Python.  I'm actually planning to put c++ on pause for
> a while while I take this course as time allows since Python appears
> to be a much quicker way to learn programming.  If anyone wants to
> join me for the occasional study session, e-mail me privately and we
> can help each other out from time to time.  Probably watch two hours
> worth of lectures on a weekend night or something like that.  And yes,
> if anyone's curious, they do have a c++ introductory course there but
> it's all lecture notes and pdf's.  The lecture notes look like they
> don't do squat for you if you didn't attend class as really good
> lecture notes written by any self-respecting instructor should in
> order to motivate you to show up for class.  The cs course with Python
> has all the bells and whistles short of truly being able to enroll and
> have the instructor available.
>
> Here is the link:
>
> http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/
>
> Regards,
> Alex M
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