MIT free online beginner's Python programming course

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/

The course is suitable for people with no programming experience. This is part of MIT's OpenCourseWare project (OCW), via which a huge part (all?) of MIT's courses are made available free online for anyone to use.

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For novice programmers: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

By Vasudev Ram - www.dancingbison.com

The article linked below is for all programmers, newbie / novice and even experienced ones, who (still) don't understand this simple point - and there are many such people, maybe even a large percentage of programmers, worldwide, and definitely tons of them in India:

Eric Raymond's How To Ask Questions The Smart Way:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

The article might be better titled: "How not to ask dumb questions".

Google for "Eric Raymond" to know more about his work on software and open source.

Also check out http://catb.org , The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and The Art of UNIX Programming.

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