Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
Not Books but have you tried any of the online learning courses? They're free and look very good from my equally beginner perspective as I struggle through them(allow more time than you think :[ ) www.coursera.org www.edx.org www.udacity.com all very good, take you pick! From: quent...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:10:46 -0600 To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org tutorials. Although chalked full of information I find it a bit overwhelming. Can anyone recommend a book, or two, or three that would be great material for really learning the language. I tend to learn better with a little structure and I feel a good book would be the best approach for myself. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. --Thanks! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
There is also this - http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0 From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+xperimental22=gmail@python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Rogers Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 9:11 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org tutorials. Although chalked full of information I find it a bit overwhelming. Can anyone recommend a book, or two, or three that would be great material for really learning the language. I tend to learn better with a little structure and I feel a good book would be the best approach for myself. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. --Thanks! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote: Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org http://python.org tutorials. You don't tell us your starting point. Are you experienced in programming in other languages or is python your first foray into Programming? Are you a professional or hobbyist? Do you have a scientific or math background? All of these influence what makes a book suitable. Some of the tutorials listed on Python.org are also paper books (including mine). Which tutorials have you looked at? The official tutor is good for people who can already program. The non-programmes ones are better if you can't already program (as you'd expect!). There are also several python videos available on sites like showmedo.com If you can answer the above questions we might be able to recommend some books. -- 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] Books for Learning Python
On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote: Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org http://python.org tutorials. You don't tell us your starting point. Are you experienced in programming in other languages or is python your first foray into Programming? Are you a professional or hobbyist? Do you have a scientific or math background? All of these influence what makes a book suitable. Some of the tutorials listed on Python.org are also paper books (including mine). Which tutorials have you looked at? The official tutor is good for people who can already program. The non-programmes ones are better if you can't already program (as you'd expect!). There are also several python videos available on sites likeshowmedo.com If you can answer the above questions we might be able to recommend some books. I am also looking for some good resources for learning Python. Here is my background. I did a lot of programming in Fortran 77 while working on my Ph.D. in engineering mechanics (graduated in 1993). I did some simple programming in Matlab and Mathematica in the 90s, but all the coding for my research since then has been done by my graduate students. I want to get back into programming so that I can create applications and animate the motion of objects for undergraduate and graduate dynamics courses I teach. Friends tell me Python is a good choice for an object oriented language (about which I know almost nothing) that has a readable syntax. With this in mind, I have two questions: (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? Does it have graphics libraries that allow one to animate the motion of simple objects (e.g., spheres, ellipsoids, parallelepipeds, etc.) based on the results of numerical simulations? (2) If the answers to the above questions are generally yes, where are some good places to get started learning Python to achieve my goals? Thank you. Gary L. Gray ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
on line Python courses with labs google python the hard way udemy.com also has python courses https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python google free online python programming classes courses Len On Friday 11/01/2013 at 3:18 pm, Gary L. Gray wrote: On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: On 11/01/13 14:10, Chris Rogers wrote: Hello all, I've began my journey into Python (2.7 currently) and I'm finding it a bit rough using the python.org http://python.org tutorials. You don't tell us your starting point. Are you experienced in programming in other languages or is python your first foray into Programming? Are you a professional or hobbyist? Do you have a scientific or math background? All of these influence what makes a book suitable. Some of the tutorials listed on Python.org are also paper books (including mine). Which tutorials have you looked at? The official tutor is good for people who can already program. The non-programmes ones are better if you can't already program (as you'd expect!). There are also several python videos available on sites likeshowmedo.com If you can answer the above questions we might be able to recommend some books. I am also looking for some good resources for learning Python. Here is my background. I did a lot of programming in Fortran 77 while working on my Ph.D. in engineering mechanics (graduated in 1993). I did some simple programming in Matlab and Mathematica in the 90s, but all the coding for my research since then has been done by my graduate students. I want to get back into programming so that I can create applications and animate the motion of objects for undergraduate and graduate dynamics courses I teach. Friends tell me Python is a good choice for an object oriented language (about which I know almost nothing) that has a readable syntax. With this in mind, I have two questions: (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? Does it have graphics libraries that allow one to animate the motion of simple objects (e.g., spheres, ellipsoids, parallelepipeds, etc.) based on the results of numerical simulations? (2) If the answers to the above questions are generally yes, where are some good places to get started learning Python to achieve my goals? Thank you. Gary L. Gray ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
I did a lot of programming in Fortran 77 while working on my Ph.D. in engineering mechanics That's OK, it's not permanent damage. :-) (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? No idea what an ODE is but yes Python can do simple graphics/GUIs. The Tkinter GUI library and friends are part of the standard library. Other tookits exist such as wxPython, pyGTK etc. Does it have graphics libraries that allow one to animate the motion of simple objects (e.g., spheres, ellipsoids, parallelepipeds, etc.) based on the results of numerical simulations? Yes, you can use things like gnuplot for grpahs/chartys or more dynamic you can use pyGame to define your own sprites and manoevre them around the screen. You can also access libraries such as Scipy and R for heavyweight number crunching. Start with the official tutorial, supplement with some of themore basic for new concepts like OOP (mine if you like! :-). Once confident with vanila python look at specialist tutorials for TKinter, PyGame, Scipy, R etc. Python is well suited to your needs, obnce you have the foundation in place (and that should take only 2 or 3 days effort to polish up the rusty bits) the new stuff can be learned as needed. HTH Alan g. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Books for Learning Python
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Gary L. Gray g...@psu.edu wrote: On Jan 11, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote: (1) Will Python allow me to create applications that provide a simple GUI interface to something like an integrator for ODEs? Does it have graphics libraries that allow one to animate the motion of simple objects (e.g., spheres, ellipsoids, parallelepipeds, etc.) based on the results of numerical simulations? Ordinary Differential Equations, I'm assuming. Python has tons of math / sci libraries. Matplotlib, scipy, pylab etc. Under Windows, get Python(X,Y) and you will get an IDE, Python, and all the modules I've mentionned. A quick google, for those coming from a matlab background: http://www.christopheralbert.net/2011/03/equivalent-ode-integrators-in-matlab.html What OS will you be using? Francois -- www.pyptug.org - raspberry-python.blogspot.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
