On Feedly

Rather than burning a significant amount of time rolling my own alternative to the soon-to-be-lamented Google Reader, I've been evaluating the various closed and open source options, finally settling on Feedly.

It's... okay... but the mobile app (at least the iPhone version) isn't... well... p...

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Scratch or Python

Scratch or Python

Marvin writes:

I have a 10 year old son who is interested in programming. He really loves playing games so I thought he should learn how they are created. I am a bit confused on which language to have him start.

My question is should he start with Scratch (and for how long?) or should I start...

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One versus two underscores

One versus two underscores

Omer writes:

I am currently on Chapter 13 and I have come across a problem that I cannot seem to figure out. I am in the section 'Creating the Ball Class'. I wrote the code the way that you have described in the book, and I am getting the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): Fil...

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Problems with files

Evan writes:

I have a Windows 8 PC, and have installed Python 3.3 onto it, and worked my way up to the last part of chapter 9 in your book with no major problems. But now I am stuck in the last part of chapter 9. The first time I tried to save a notepad txt file to the C: location, access was de...

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Good luck

Good luck

To the (I assume) wannabe-hackers who, according to my web server logs, are trying to access various combinations of wp-admin, wp-login and other types of login page... good luck with that! ツ

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Python on the Web?

Dean writes:

I'm 13, I live in the US, and I just finished reading your excellent book "Python for Kids". After I finished the book I had two questions. First I was curious if it is possible to put a python game on a website to play? The other question I had was what was the hardest project you...

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PfK Errata

Piotr Słowik writes:

I'm learning how to code from your book. It's great! First time in my life I'm starting to understand how to write code and make it work ;) You're the first person whose teachings make sense to me!

But I have problem with this example:

>>> v = sys.stdin.readline(13)

He...

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