As someone who learned (about) programming by copying and pasting code,
I really appreciate," Python for software design - how to think like a
computer scientist" by Allen Downey. It really talks you through the
workflow of programming, rather than just give you a long list of things
that you can do if you learn to program in X.
A legally free manuscript is available here:
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/
Best wishes,
Lewis
Wayne wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Ken G. <beach...@insightbb.com
<mailto:beach...@insightbb.com>> wrote:
I am just starting on Python 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 and I am
slightly confused with the numerous tutorials and books available
for learning the language. Is there any good recommendation for a
good but easy tutorial on the Internet to learn Python?
Ken
Alan has a good tutorial:
www.alan-g.me.uk/ <http://www.alan-g.me.uk/>
I haven't read it, but a lot of others on here are big fans of
Wesley's book:
http://python.net/crew/wesc/cpp/
There are several other sources and tutorials around, those are just
the first two that popped into my mind :)
I kinda hopped around to various tutorials, especially since I've
programmed before (and am a CS major), so a lot of the concepts were a
bit easier for me to grasp.
Alan's tutorial does a great job explaining a lot of concepts behind
programming in general and ties them to programming in python.
HTH,
Wayne
wesley chun wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Nick Hird <nrh...@gmail.com>
<mailto:nrh...@gmail.com> wrote:
What is the best version of python to start out with? I see some
discussions on the net about not going to 3.1 but staying with the 2.x
releases. But then i see that 3.1 is better if your just starting.
greetings nick!
ironically, i just gave a talk on this very subject yesterday afternoon(!)
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?OnlyOne=true&id=227
<http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?OnlyOne=true&id=227>
basically, if you're starting from scratch as a hobby with no
pre-existing code, then learning 3.x is okay. however, since most of
the world still runs on Python 2, most printed and online books and
tutorials are still on Python 2, and the code at most companies using
Python is still on version 2, i would recommended any release 2.6 (and
newer). the reason is because 2.6 is the first release that has
3.x-specific features backported to it, so really, it's the first
Python 2 release that lets you start coding against a 3.x interpreter.
you can learn Python using 2.6+ then absorb the differences and move
to Python 3.x quite easily.
hope this helps!
-- wesley
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