[mpdaugherty]

The book looks awesome, thanks a lot for the link!

Just yesterday, I started teaching my co-founder how to code in python, and wanted to very quickly get to something useful to give him inspiration to keep going.

I ended up starting with the python interpreter for ~30 min, followed by writing a very short program to show a random inspirational quote on the command line, and then turned it into a module so we could import it back in the interpreter. The end goal was to show how programs get built up from smaller pieces and can become more and more complex.

I think he really started to get it once we added a few test functions to test the different range of inputs to his "get_quote" function.

Next time, I'm going to show him Django via simple demo site and hopefully he'll be at the point where he can start editing HTML. (I'll either use https://github.com/mpdaugherty/django-demo-project, which displays quotes and demonstrates views and templates, or https://github.com/mpdaugherty/RateBeers, which rates beers and adds in some DB models, depending on how far he gets).