Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 90, Issue 97
On Tuesday 30 August 2011 02:21:15 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Heh, well different people find different approaches useful. To coin a cliché, it would be a dull world if we were all the same. :-) Lisi ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 90, Issue 97
Lisi wrote: On Monday 29 August 2011 18:01:44 Cranky Frankie wrote: I'm sorry you were offended by my posts. If others were as well let me know and I'll unsubscribe immediately. Post in the singular. I could not, and can not, I'm afraid, see the point in writing such a long panegyric about Python to a list of Python users. It's a book review for a book that Cranky Frankie really loved. As book reviews go, I've read much worse. But I'm not sure that this is the right place for it... Frankie, do you have a blog? Perhaps you should consider getting one. Actually, given that this list is aimed at beginners, and the question of "what's a good book to read" keeps coming up, on balance I'm inclined to say that such reviews are legitimate (so long as Frankie has no direct, or indirect, incentive to shill for the book he is reviewing). But please don't over do it. And you do seem to have gone wa OT over that particular book, which I bought and found unusable. Heh, well different people find different approaches useful. -- Steven ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 90, Issue 97
On 29/08/11 20:23, Lisi wrote: ...I could not, and can not, I'm afraid, see the point in writing such a long panegyric about Python It's actually quite common on this list. Especially from programmers newly come to Python from other languages and who get quite excited when they discover how powerful and succint Python can be :-) They seem somehow surprised that the folks on a Python list have already figured that out!... -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 90, Issue 97
On Monday 29 August 2011 18:01:44 Cranky Frankie wrote: > I'm sorry you were offended by my posts. If others were as well let me > know and I'll unsubscribe immediately. Post in the singular. I could not, and can not, I'm afraid, see the point in writing such a long panegyric about Python to a list of Python users. And you do seem to have gone wa OT over that particular book, which I bought and found unusable. But it didn't _offend_ me, it just struck me as spam. Lisi ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 90, Issue 97
Lisi wrote: <> I hope it's just you, because it is not spam. As I said, I read a *lot* of computer books (I'm a database administrator) and this book really stands out. It's so good I'm thinking of seeing if my wife, who knows nothing about programming, would like to read it. I've never felt that way about a computer book before, and since this is so unusual in the computer book field, I thought I'd share it here. <> I'm not a gamer either, but this paradigm allowed the author to show the great flexibility of Python. I think he made a wise choice. Using games as a starting point should also make this book useful to teachers of programming 101, because kids love games. Anything that gets kids coding instead of just wasting time is good IMHO. << Alan seems to use address books (anyhow initially). Now I can see the point in that.>> I'm sorry you were offended by my posts. If others were as well let me know and I'll unsubscribe immediately. -- Frank L. "Cranky Frankie" Palmeri Risible Riding Raconteur & Writer " . . . and the extended forecast, until you come back to me, baby, is high tonight, low tomorrow, and precipitation is expected." - Tom Waits, "Emotional Weather Report" ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
