Re:Python - designed for teaching (Score 2)

And if you are going to start them on Windows then you should look at Mark Hammond's WIndows extensions. Particularly PythonWin, a nice IDE. You can compare it with IDLE (that is Guido van Rossum's crossplatform IDE).

http://www.python.org/windows

A good Python book for beginners is David Ascher and Mark Lutz's _Learning Python_

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