Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!
Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Don't try to read them all! They all present much the same information just in different styles. Some major on getting you writing code quickly, some present a more theoretical basis first. Some use a common theme or project others use lots of different a shorter projects. There is no right or best approach, pick the one that sems to work best for you. Much will depend on what you want to do with your new skills and what your previous experience is. If you can already program in another language the official tutor is probably the best starting place, but if you don't already programme much of it will be meaningless. The one that is best for you can only be decided by you! HTH, -- Alan Gauld 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] Python Book recomandation!
For BOOK recommend: python cookbook my favor. :) For promote you skill: Find a short python source code(ex.from open source project) and read it. you can learn more useful programing methods. 2010/7/16 Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Don't try to read them all! They all present much the same information just in different styles. Some major on getting you writing code quickly, some present a more theoretical basis first. Some use a common theme or project others use lots of different a shorter projects. There is no right or best approach, pick the one that sems to work best for you. Much will depend on what you want to do with your new skills and what your previous experience is. If you can already program in another language the official tutor is probably the best starting place, but if you don't already programme much of it will be meaningless. The one that is best for you can only be decided by you! HTH, -- Alan Gauld 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 ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!
Hi Daniel, As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, and reinforce what I'm learning for myself. http://letslearnpython.com/ Pardon my own plug, but you are exactly the audience member I am targeting. Everything I recommend with the exception of a paperback book is free to access. I'm adding more lessons as I go, and hopefully as I progress, I can make more specific recommendations. You are off to a great start by asking this list; I've found the people here are very friendly and extremely knowledgeable. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Have a great day! ___ Tutor maillist - tu...@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] Python Book recomandation!
'Building Skills in Python by Steven Lott, This free book is simply awesome http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/python.html I went thru the short books first : Dive Into Python and Byte of Python - they are good for a bit of foundation then come to this one, and this one rreinforces concepts and explain things in a much more organized and clear-cut way. On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. FWIW I feel going through official python tutorial and then making a project helps better than anything else to learn python. ~l0nwlf ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Eric Hamiter ehami...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, and reinforce what I'm learning for myself. http://letslearnpython.com/ Pardon my own plug, but you are exactly the audience member I am targeting. Everything I recommend with the exception of a paperback book is free to access. I'm adding more lessons as I go, and hopefully as I progress, I can make more specific recommendations. You are off to a great start by asking this list; I've found the people here are very friendly and extremely knowledgeable. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Have a great day! ___ Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor ___ Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor I've done several, including Byte Of Python, as well as Dive into python, and this is the best so far: inventwithpython.com/IYOCGwP_book1.pdf Although each individually might not make you an immediate expert. Each helps you gain knowledge by repeating some of what you know, and then offering a different program in which these fundamentals operate. So the more you practice the fundamentals within the books,(and don't forget the online tutorials available), the more user friendly Python becomes. . ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Python Book recomandation!
I've found Snake Wrangling for Kids http://code.google.com/p/swfk/ by Jason Biggs an easy, fun and understandable free e-book. I also have started reading Head First Programming from O'Reilly which teaches programming using Python. I have others also but those two have been the easiest to read. YouTube also has many tutorials...some quite good. Joe On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:04 PM, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Eric Hamiter ehami...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, and reinforce what I'm learning for myself. http://letslearnpython.com/ Pardon my own plug, but you are exactly the audience member I am targeting. Everything I recommend with the exception of a paperback book is free to access. I'm adding more lessons as I go, and hopefully as I progress, I can make more specific recommendations. You are off to a great start by asking this list; I've found the people here are very friendly and extremely knowledgeable. Thanks, Eric On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Daniel asmosis.aste...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I recently browsed the BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers section of the Python website, but I have a question regarding it. With what book I should start learning Python? Or should I take them in the order they are presented there on the website?I have no previous programming experience, thanks. Have a great day! ___ 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 I've done several, including Byte Of Python, as well as Dive into python, and this is the best so far: inventwithpython.com/IYOCGwP_book1.pdf Although each individually might not make you an immediate expert. Each helps you gain knowledge by repeating some of what you know, and then offering a different program in which these fundamentals operate. So the more you practice the fundamentals within the books,(and don't forget the online tutorials available), the more user friendly Python becomes. . ___ 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] Python Book recomandation!
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Eric Hamiter ehami...@gmail.com wrote: As a fellow complete beginner, I have actually started a web site that details just this. I'm learning as I go and have tried to put together a curriculum of sorts that will helpfully guide other newbies as well, and reinforce what I'm learning for myself. http://letslearnpython.com/ The first lesson on the link above suggests the tutorial Learn Python the Hard Way. One comment about it: it seems to teach Python 2.x series, as can be seen from the print statements. I would advise most beginners to learn Python 3. -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
