[nfbcs] FW: Learn Python the Hard Way

[Rasmussen, Lloyd]

The conversion of this book to HTML was done by the creator of the Quitter program which provides access to Twitter.  

To work with Python, you will need an editor or system allowing you to correctly indent your code, because level of indentation is an important part of the syntax.  EdSharp is one of the possible solutions for editing Python code.  The e-mail address for the author of this HTML conversion is q at qwitter-client.net .

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress   202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS.

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce at freelists.org [mailto:programmingblind-bounce at freelists.org] On Behalf Of Q
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 3:36 AM
To: programmingblind at freelists.org
Subject: Learn Python the Hard Way

LPTHW is a fantastic book by a guy named Zed Shaw giving a good overview to the Python programming language. He makes it freely-available in PDF from www.learnpythonthehardway.org. Recognizing that PDF isn't the best in terms of accessibility, I built the book from its ReStructured text sources to pure html to provide easy access to anyone interested.
This is available at http://www.qwitter-client.net/lpthw
So if you've been looking to pick up a new, powerful and fun language, I invite you to have a run through of the book, try the exercises, and if you need any help or can't figure something out, poke me!
One minor Note: Zed recommends the use of Gedit, which as far as I know is inaccessible. I personally use Notepad2, though I can't recommend it because of some oddities with the Scintilla editing component one must accustom themselves to, though I do believe there have already been discussions as to appropriate editors for various languages on this list I'd hardly like to start rehashing.

Enjoy,
      Q