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Re:Learn Regex The Hard Way by joelhooks on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @11:19PM (#3298294)
My 13 year old son is working through Learn Python the Hard way. He likes it a lot and is building things that interest him. He will spend the whole day fiddling with Python working on a text based choose your own adventure game that one of the chapters had him build.

He's approached programming a couple of times before, but LPTHW is the first time he's really stuck with it.

In that regard, I think Zed is doing an awesome job. I'm looking forward to the REGEX book and want to work through the C book as well.

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Re:Learn Regex The Hard Way by zedshaw on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @11:49PM (#3298402)
That's awesome. It's funny because I didn't even try to write the book for kids, but happy it seems to work well for them.
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Re:Learn Regex The Hard Way by mkopinsky on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:29PM (#3302694)
Kids tend to be, in general, kinda like adults in a lot of ways. Whodathunk? :-)
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