Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-15 Thread Matt Richardson
On 7/14/06, wesley chun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (LONG... you've been warned ;-) ) snip Heh, that was pretty long. I bought the first edition of Core Python and thought that it was well-written, but I didn't quite get it (stay with me, this gets better). It wasn't until after I had taken quite

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Matthew Webber
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grady Henry Sent: 14 July 2006 06:20 To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Python Programming Books I have three books on Python programming, Learning Python by O'Reilly, Beginning Python by Hetland, and Python in a Nutshell

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Carroll, Barry
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Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Terry Carroll
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Grady Henry wrote: I have three books on Python programming, Learning Python by O'Reilly, Beginning Python by Hetland, and Python in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Are these good (recommended) books? Any others that might be recommended? I don't know the Hetland book. I

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Andre Roberge
On 7/14/06, Terry Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Grady Henry wrote: I have three books on Python programming, Learning Python by O'Reilly, Beginning Python by Hetland, and Python in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Are these good (recommended) books? Any others that might be

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread wesley chun
I have three books on Python programming, Learning Python by O'Reilly, Beginning Python by Hetland, and Python in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Are these good (recommended) books? Any others that might be recommended? Learning is a good book to learn from if you already know C. Beginning is a good

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Andre Roberge
On 7/14/06, wesley chun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while it would be a conflict-of-interest for me to give *my* opinion of the book, it appears to be pretty well-received (mostly by word-of-mouth) based on comments i've seen so far. :-) I don't know about others, but I think it might be of

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread Alan Gauld
I don't know about others, but I think it might be of benefit if you could give an assessment that would include a description of the weaknesses of the book [I could be in a minority opinion here. People like Kent, Alan, Danny, etc. should probably comment.] I'm no expert since I've only

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread johnsonv3
). However, I do not feel I have a full understanding at this point but expect to be getting close by the time I finish the first book listed above. - Original Message - From: Grady Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tutor@python.org Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:19 AM Subject: [Tutor] Python

Re: [Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-14 Thread wesley chun
(LONG... you've been warned ;-) ) andre wrote: I don't know about others, but I think it might be of benefit if you could give an assessment that would include a description of the weaknesses of the book I'm no expert since I've only browsed Wesley's book in a store a few times but

[Tutor] Python Programming Books

2006-07-13 Thread Grady Henry
I have three books on Python programming, Learning Python by O'Reilly, Beginning Python by Hetland, and Python in a Nutshell by O'Reilly. Are these good (recommended) books? Any others that might be recommended? ___ Tutor maillist -