Jason R Briggs

Xing Y writes:

This is Xing Yanchao from the city of Qingdao, Shandong province, China, a big beautiful coastal city with 7 million citizens. I’m very interested in teaching kids to program, and plan to choose your book as the teaching material (In Chinese, \^_\). *The kids may be between 8...

Robin L writes (excerpted):

I am trying to teach myself how to code and thought this was a good place to begin. I am having trouble with the “multiplying strings” section. I don’t know anyone else who codes so I am hoping that you are still available at this email. This is the *part about pri...

丁明 writes (edited for spelling):

In your book python for kids chapter 13, when I run the program, the python shell has a error I can’t understand. my python version 3.6.0. Thank you for your reply!!

I’m not sure if the Chinese edition has captured the text on page 199 of the English vers...

I’ve come across some uncorroborated reports that some of the instructions, or examples, in Python for Kids don’t work with Windows 10. Uncorroborated because it’s unfortunately nothing more than “it don’t work”. Not spectacularly useful, so I’ve finally gotten around to installing Windows 10 in V...

Lee writes:

I’m not fully understanding the HugeHairyPants program on pages 72-73 of Python For Kids. I initially thought that the loop would produce “huge huge hairy hairy pants pants,” reasoning that the program would assign the first value to i, then the identical value to j, and continue...

Frankly this is bizarre, but if you’re looking for Python for Kids, I suggest you don’t buy on Amazon for the moment:

Much as I’d like to be getting a cut of that price, I somehow doubt I’m getting anything – and you’re possibly getting a poor quality knock off, going by this:

(Some more...

After something like 10 or more years completely ensconced in the Apple ecosystem, and now finding the price tag on the new MacBook Pros hard to justify, I’m looking around at alternatives. Before Apple, there was 7 - 8 (only occasionally fustrating) years of Linux in various flavours, so it makes s...

Roxana T writes (excerpted):

I did look at the installation instructions in ch1 but still didn’t work. I’m using Ubuntu and the built-in (is this the right word?) Python Version. It is I guess 2.7. I have the 3 version too, but I have to set it as default probably because when I launch Idle...