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by danso 4918 days ago
This is a nice layout but I'm afraid the blog structure is less than optimal. For a beginner, the priority of lessons is not their chronology of publishing, but of their logical place in the learning process.

Also, the taxonomy needs work...I don't think this is what I have in mind when I see the "basics" category of a beginners reference to Python:

http://www.pythonforbeginners.com/category/basics/

Basics for beginners should include such things as "what is programming?", "how do I install python?", "how do I run a script?" And so forth.

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Thanks for your feedback. I will write more basic articles as we go. In fact, the latest post "Download and Install Python" is a start of doing that. I want the site to be for all python users, even though the site name is "pythonforbeginners".
agreed... despite of a nice interface, the site does lack organization and some super beginner stuff, I did overlook the absence of those...
Super Beginner stuff is on the standard python tutorial. That normally doesn't need to be on every website.
Well, this is "Python for Beginners", so that name will attract the kind of person who has never touched the command line. Likely they'll be using a system in which Python is already installed, but they still won't know how to access it.

Another thing to keep in mind: this kind of beginner will also have trouble finding these "standard" tutorials that have up-to-date info. No, it's not that they can't use Google, but they don't have enough technical sense to tell what's a good source of this installation info from what's a bad source. Hence, it's good to have this super-basic info packaged into any kind of tutorial that purports to be for "beginners".

True. A search for python tutorial returns the official python tutorial. But, I hear your point. It should be added, or a least a link to the very beginner material should be provided.