Front Matter

Abstract:

Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python is a tutorial designed to be a introduction to the Python programming language. This guide is for someone with no programming experience.

If you have programmed in other languages I recommend using The Python Tutorial written by Guido van Rossum.

This document is available as LATEX, HTML, PDF, and Postscript. Go to http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/ to see all these forms.

The version you are reading has been modified to better fit the ActivePython context. For instance descriptions of PythonWin have been added. Comments about the PythonWin and ActivePython references in the document can be sent to http://activepythonbugs.activestate.com.

If you have any questions or comments please contact me at jjc@iname.com I welcome questions and comments about this tutorial. I will try to answer any questions you have as best as I can.

Thanks go to James A. Brown for writing most of the Windows install info. Thanks also to Elizabeth Cogliati for complaining enough :) about the original tutorial (that is almost unusable for a non-programmer) and also for proofreading. Thanks to everyone I have missed. Here are a few links that you may find useful:

Dedicated to Elizabeth Cogliati