Python is where it starts.
 

I have been looking into starting programming for a long while now, and wound up on these forums. I read quite a few FAQs here and decided that Python would be my first programming language.

I have worked with it a bit, as displayed here:
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/5...nessjpg4up.jpg

So, basically I understand I have done something in the 'command line' of Python.

Could anyone tell me where to go from here with this, or give me the URL of a n00b programmers tutorial to Python? The Python tutorial which comes with the program is a bit overwhelming, as they talk about programming languages I have never heard of before.

hi... i'm a neewbie to, go check out "all" the post on the python forums, just check on things regarding newbies and tutorials there should be one or two links to tut's....

here is the one i found was the best place to start ;)

here it is:
http://www.programmingforums.org/for...ead.php?t=7099

I don't have a C compiler - I don't think :( -- Thats why I was doing Python. Where can I get a C compiler?

If you're on Windows (which you probably are), you don't need one to run python.

If you still want a C compiler, a popular free one is called Dev C++ and you can get it from http://www.bloodshed.net/

Dev C++ is not a compiler, just an IDE. It uses the minGW as its default compiler.

Here's a pretty complete list of Python tutorials for non-programmers.

And from that list this tutorial seems to do a pretty good job of explaining what it is all about.

Where did you find this gem? You don't need a C compiler to run Python. You only need it, if you download the Python interpreter source code, but this is rarely done! Generally, you download Python already compiled for the operating system you have, Windows, Linux, Mac-Unix and so on.

My favorite beginners tutorial can be found here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap/byteof...ead/index.html

thondal's link says so. (In the page on his link.)

Well, there is a lot of wrong information on the internet! Looks like the author coldDeath was exuberantly confused when he stated that.

C compiler is sufficient but not necessary.