help (and hello world!)

First message I've seen here from you.

Python: There are *huge* resources on line

RasPi: The Raspberry Pi foundation is the best first call.

Electronics: Books are your best first choice if you have no experience at all. Be a bit cautious about on-line stuff - especially where mains voltages are involved (if in doubt, don't)

You're better off holding back on querying here until you have a specific problem that is preventing you from moving forward.

HTH

This is USENET. Telnet exists but is something quite different.

To answer your first question, this is the first message to appear from you (that I've seen anyway).

Another Dave

I suggest you check it-ebooks.info - there are a number of good, FREE e- books on those topics (and others).

I think you mean usenet. Telnet is a way of remote logging in to a machine, it's insecure so ssh is used instead these days.

If you want general information, the web is a much better place to start. The newsgroups work well for specific questions.

---druck

Is there any other way ;-)

Hello, Josh.

Not sure if you meant your comment about Telent as a separate comment or if you learned incorrect terminology. No matter, I have no problem helping educate people on the topic and everyone has to learn somewhere. Telent is a protocol for remote command line connections. It is insecure so people went to the similar in idea, but secure, SSH, which is short for secure shell. We are having this discussion on Usenet. You can telent or SSH to another system for the purposes of getting on Usenet so maybe you meant that, but regardless we are on a newsgroup, which is part of usenet, not telnet.

My ISP, when I called for tech support once, told me I needed to speak to the owner of Usenet if I had problems posting. So you are ahead of them at least.

There is a Python newsgroup, comp.lang.python. When I post questions there I sometimes get people who yell at me for not knowing the answer already and sometimes I get extremely helpful people telling me what I need to know.

I found the document "Dive into Python" great.

Also, Jessica McKellar does some very helpful introductory tutorial videos on Python. Search for her classes on YouTube and you probably find good stuff.

First thing for Python though, read this comic.

As for the Raspberry Pi, you found the right newsgroup, that is a start. Otherwise go the Raspberry Foundation website and go through the Help section.

Then read the blog, but follow the links to any projects that seem interesting. You will then find more links to how those folks learn, or references to the documentation for the software packages they used, etc. Following interesting projects on the Raspberry Foundation blog can lead you to interesting places.

Of particular note is the The Raspberry Pi Guy.

You mentioned electronics in general.

People way more knowledgeable than me cited some books. Pay attention to what the other responses said. I would add that I found the learning videos on the Adafruit website a nice intro for beginners.

Keep in mind Adafruit is great, but it is a business trying to sell you stuff. Regardless, I think their videos are very helpful and inspiring. They start you in the world of electronics in the nice, friendly, heavy lifting has been done for you way. Then you can learn about lower level stuff like how a resistor works.

You should also read the comic book "Soldering is Easy".

Wow! I didn't ask the original question, but what a fantastic answer! I'm going to be browsing around there for quite some time! I truly appreciate the link. Thank you.