Jason R Briggs

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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Arijjan V writes (excerpted):

When I enter code into the compiler I continue to get multiple statement error messages. *Even if I copy the code from the book.

I use Idle 34 on windows professional 7. This is what I typed into the Idle Shell.

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Lyna M writes (excerpted):

*I bought your book Python for Kids with the intention to teach my son Python later on but have now been using it myself to learn Python as I find your book to be quite comprehensive even if it was ‘for kids’.

I’ve been doing the Bounce tutorial and would like to fin...

Marta C writes:

I’m new in programming. I just want to know if it would be too hard or complicated to use Python 2.7 with the Python for Kids book? I am still practicing for a class I took with v 2.7. Can I have both IDLE 2.7 and 3 in the system and use them separately and not run into probl...

Christopher D writes:

I’m currently working through your book and enjoying it immensely. *The following is baffling me though, so hoping you can help.

In Chapter 13, page 197 (after creating the ball object), you wrote: “If you run this program now using Run>Module, the canvas will appear f...

Kirk K writes:

On page 12 it says File>New Window but I cannot find it on our Windows version 3.4.1. Please advise.

It looks like, as of Python 3.4, they’ve changed the menu, so File->New Window has become File->New File (which makes the Shell consistent with other text editors, at least). I...

Craig S writes:

My son is having a problem running the random rectangle program on page 174 of Python for Kids. He is using version 2.7.7, so the Tkinter module must be capitalized (just so you don’t suggest to capitalize it). Every time he tries to run the module, it comes up with a new win...

Koki Y writes:

I have a question. You use % for format instead .format(). In the python tutorial, it is written that % format is an older version of format. What’s the point of using % format?

The book uses the % operator (also known as the interpolation operator) basically through omi...