Jason R Briggs

Martin writes:

First of all thank you for writing “Python for Kids”. It’s a great book and offers “instant gratification”. My 8-year-old is already hacking his way through the pages on his brand new Raspberry Pi. He (we) ran into a bit of trouble when we started playing with Tkinter. Your initia...

Tony writes:

I have installed Python 3.5.0b3, and when I tried to make the shortcut, it looked very different from the book’s examples and I did not get the toolbar with “File”, “Edit”, “Options”, etc. on the top. Please tell me how to correctly complete the installation process. Thank you, ...

I have recently bought your book, Python For Kids and I think it’s great and easy to understand *except for one small thing.

It tells me to put this into the Shell:

spaces = ’ ’ * 25 print(’%s 12 Butts wynd’ % spaces) print(’%s Twinklebottom heath’) % spaces) print() print() print(’Dear Sir’)...

Sandy S writes:

I just purchased 3 copies of “Python for Kids” so that my 2 sons and I can begin our quest! Anyway I hate to bug you with this but we just downloaded the latest version of the Python suite and the –n switch for IDLE startup has a message about “being deprecated since version ...

Art S writes (excerpted):

First, let me say that I am having a great time learning Python from Python for Kids, even though I am just a kid at heart. I’m an old, old guy (I’ll be 52 in April), but my students keep me young - I’ve been teaching high school mathematics for 25 years, and I am f...

Miquel C writes:

Do you know where to learn Python? I’ve been searching and I’ve only found Codecademy. I’d be very happy if you know where to go from Python For Kids. *All kind of learning would be great.

I also downloaded an IRC bot, and I’ve translated it to my language. I’ve been lookin...

Lucas writes (excerpted):

When I try to open IDLE as instructed on page 11 I get an error message.

Any suggestions?

It depends on which version of Python you’re running, but if you’ve installed the latest (3.4.2), then instead of putting the following in Automator:

open -a "/Applic...

Emmeline writes:

I’m twelve and I recently got a raspberry Pi camera module. I really wanted to do stop animation with it but, when I used Tkinter to make a button it would take a picture when I pressed it and save it as I specified. The problem is if I wanted to use the button again it dele...

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