On 2011-01-26 01:43 , Luis M. González wrote: > On Jan 24, 2:09 pm, santosh hs <santosh.tron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> i am beginner to python please tell me which is the best available >> reference for beginner to start from novice > > If you are a complete beginner to programming, I suggest start with a > tutorial such as "A Byte of Python" (google this). > I learned my first steps with Josh Cogliati's "Non-Programmers > Tutorial For Python" > http://www.oopweb.com/Python/Documents/easytut/VolumeFrames.html
Josh moved this tutorial to Wikibooks some years ago, where it has been improved since then. Today there are two versions, one for Python 2.x and one for Python 3: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python_2.6 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python_3 I have used it to introduce people to programming with very good results. If you want to get the maximum out of Lutz & Asher's "Learning Python", which is a very good book as well, you should have programmed in some way before. Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list