Simon Brunning wrote: > I have a non-programming friend who wants to learn Python. It's been > so long since I've been in her shoes that I don't feel qualified to > judge the books aimed at people in her situation. I know of two such > books: > > <http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/> > <http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/> > > Any recommendations, or otherwise? > > -- > Cheers, > Simon B, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
If you want real (dead-tree) books, you will find Chris Fehily's Visual Quickstart Guide recommended by others here (though it's ageing - 2002). I'm about 2/3 through and it's been great for me: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0201748843/richarddooling/ And a brand new one which I just ordered: Beginning Python (Programmer To Programmer) which despite the title has a great intro to programming before it quickly accelerates: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0764596543/richarddooling/ Cheers, bs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list