Hey! This is awesome. Can you do me a favor and take notes on lessons that they screw up, then submit bug reports? I put it out there and then I know people are using it but I don't get any feedback. Short of running my own intro class I can't find any other way to get information on whether it's working.
Either it's working so damn well nobody needs to tell me because they end up writing their next million dollar idea a week later, or it's really not working and people are just not bothering to tell me.
Sure thing, Zed. I'll plant the idea of remembering the stumbling points and generating feedback.
Two of my friends have commented that they really like the snarky humor. I think it's a part of what keeps them chugging through the designed-to-generate-errors-you-must-debug drudgery.
EDIT: Going back over the book, Exercise 0 caused one of my friends some confusion. The other sailed through it just fine. The confused one is a Windows user and hadn't seen the command line since Windows 3.1. The non-confused one has an Ubuntu netbook. Confusion was over what constituted commands to type in and what was the part you should see. The mode switch between the Python prompt and the CMD command line also took a few minutes of explaining.
Ah interesting, yeah I don't have windows so someone else submitted those instructions. I'll go and try to do them myself and see if they can be improved. Although, I think for windows folks this will be a big hurdle at first either way.
Either it's working so damn well nobody needs to tell me because they end up writing their next million dollar idea a week later, or it's really not working and people are just not bothering to tell me.
Thanks.