Ideas from Mark Stout

 After several years of not programming much of anything, I have chosen to finally learn Python. I tried half-heartedly a few years ago.  I wrongly understood it was like PHP and a natural for HTML.  I read a couple of cheat sheets and tried to make a go of it. Sound torturous?  That is how I had to learned my first programming language, Radio Shack Level II BASIC back in 1979.  I had only a elementary manual on Level I, and then a command reference on Level II.  I head to reason out not only how each command worked, but why you would use it.  I've used that method for most of the languages I have learned, which is why I have always been a hobbyist programmer, and not an especially productive one. I soon learned with Python if I wanted to do websites, I needed to use Djanjo, a web library for Python.  Those who know Python and Djanjo are probably moaning right now.  Those two together are not a good first day in Python, yet that is what I tried to do. This time, I started with a co