Jason R Briggs

Lou O writes:

Hi Jason, Read a few good reviews of your book on Amazon. One of the reviews pointed out “The explanation of String formatting needs to be updated. We don’t do embedded values using %s anymore. I recommend skipping the chapters on Turtle Graphics and tkinter. The introductory...

Marzena writes:

I’m writing to you because neither me nor my 11-year old daughter with whom we’re learning Python can figure out where the problem is. We get the following error:
 ================ RESTART: C:/Users/Enarpol/Desktop/brajan.py ================
 Traceback (most recent call last):
...

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Jobakhan writes (edited):

Using this code import sys
def moon_weight():     print(’Please enter your current Earth weight’)
    weight = float(sys.stdin.readline())
    print(’Please enter the amount your weight might increase each year’)
    increase = float(sys.stdin.readline())
    print...

Tom writes (excerpted):

I’m learning Python from your book and I’m finding it a great resource. However, I’m at the point where I’m creating the StickMan game and I’m having issues. I’m using an iMac running MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 The version of GIMP that I downloaded is 2.8.18. Specifically, ...

Dean B writes:

I’m on page 137 of your book Python For Kids (chapter 10). I noticed a sentence at the top of the page, and have a question on it. It says “This won’t work if you’re using the modified version of IDLE that we set up in Chapter 1.” I didn’t remember seeing anything *in chapter 1...

Sunil writes:

I would, first of all, like to thank you for the amazing book you have written “Python for Kids” It’s really helped my nephew learn Coding in a very exciting and fun way. He is now very keen on continuing with Python. He is 8. But at this point, I do not know what would be the next...

Feng writes:

I bought a chinese version of your book. when i tried the paddle ball at this step: ‘Bounce (example 4) - ball moving up and down’ at the first part of the code, you add a line tk.update(). I cannot see why this is *necessary, since there are no balls moving at all. Then, i com...