New Python book, Learn Python Quickly

2013-03-17 Thread John Rowland
Hi All, You may be interested in my latest book Learn Python Quickly. It's a Kindle book but is specifically designed to be used with any of the free-to-download Kindle Reading Apps. What's special about the book is its comprehensive glossary and the numerous in-text internal hyperlinks to

New Python book, Learn Python Quickly

2013-03-16 Thread John Rowland
Hi All, You may be interested in my latest book Learn Python Quickly. It's a Kindle book but is specifically designed to be used with any of the free-to-download Kindle Reading Apps. What's special about the book is its comprehensive glossary and the numerous in-text internal hyperlinks to

Re: Hijack! Different book: (was: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On 15 Aug, 19:52, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully it isn't quite as annoying as some of what I've found in the Turbogears book that recently arrived from Amazon. (Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears) Is this the book that came out before TurboGears even reached

Re: Hijack! Different book: (was: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-16 Thread Carsten Haese
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 04:21 -0700, Paul Boddie wrote: [...] I pity the people writing Python books given continuous changes to the language and the associated recommended development practices as new features go in, but tracking a target prior to any kind of stable release seems a bit too

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-15 Thread kyosohma
from another programming language! On 8/14/07, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:57 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-15 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-08-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, the author makes the claim that the term Predicate is bandied about quite a bit in the literature of Python. I have 17 or so Python books and I don't think I've ever seen this used in conjunction with Python...or in any

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-15 Thread Alex Martelli
Neil Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-08-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason, the author makes the claim that the term Predicate is bandied about quite a bit in the literature of Python. I have 17 or so Python books and I don't think I've ever seen this

Re: Hijack! Different book: (was: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-15 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 15, 12:52 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:32:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: More on the subject...the writer is very conversational in tone and it makes for a light read in the first 1 1/2 chapters that

Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread Dick Moores
I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: Jul 27, 2007 Edition: 1st edition Binding: Paperback Pages: 508 ISBN: 1598631586 List Price: 34.99 USD The book on the publisher's

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread kyosohma
On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: Jul 27, 2007 Edition: 1st edition Binding: Paperback Pages: 508

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread Dick Moores
At 05:57 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: Jul 27, 2007

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread James Matthews
Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:57 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread Shawn Milochik
: On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: Jul 27, 2007 Edition: 1st edition Binding

Re: Opinions about this new Python book?

2007-08-14 Thread kyosohma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:57 AM 8/14/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 14, 7:05 am, Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate opinions about this new Python book. Title: Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide Author: Matt Telles Publisher: Course

Re: New Python book

2005-10-10 Thread Alex Martelli
hrh1818 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This book is not a new book. It is an updated version of Magnus's 2002 Practical Python book. Then it's probably a good book, because Practical Python sure was! Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New Python book

2005-10-09 Thread hrh1818
This book is not a new book. It is an updated version of Magnus's 2002 Practical Python book. Dick Moores wrote: (Sorry, my previous post should not have had Tutor in the subject header.) Magnus Lie Hetland's new book, _Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional_ was published by Apress

Re: New Python book

2005-10-08 Thread hrh1818
The title is very misleading. The book is a nice introduction to Python, covers the high lights of Python without getting bogged down in detail and the author has a lively writing style. But the book has very litle to entice professional programmers. Dick Moores wrote: (Sorry, my previous post

Re: New Python book

2005-10-07 Thread Maurice LING
I had the opportunity to glance through the book in Borders yesterday. On the whole, I think it is well covered and is very readable. Perhaps I was looking for a specific aspect, and I find that threads did not get enough attention. Looking at the index pages, the topics on threads (about 4-5

Re: New Python book

2005-10-07 Thread Jeremy Jones
Maurice LING wrote: I had the opportunity to glance through the book in Borders yesterday. On the whole, I think it is well covered and is very readable. Perhaps I was looking for a specific aspect, and I find that threads did not get enough attention. Looking at the index pages, the topics on

Re: New Python book

2005-10-06 Thread Scott David Daniels
Jeremy Jones wrote (about Magnus Lie Hetland's _Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional_): ... this would probably also be an excellent educational resource for teachers in a classroom setting teaching students Python. I would be interested to hear some teachers' opinion on that

Re: New Python book

2005-10-06 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could ask over on comp.lang.python.education comp.lang.python.education is a rogue newsgroup; it won't appear on many newsservers. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The

[Tutor] New Python book

2005-10-05 Thread Dick Moores
Magnus Lie Hetland's new book, _Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional_ was published by Apress on Sept. 26 (in the U.S.). My copy arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. Very much worth a look, IMHO. But what do the experts here think?

New Python book

2005-10-05 Thread Dick Moores
(Sorry, my previous post should not have had Tutor in the subject header.) Magnus Lie Hetland's new book, _Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional_ was published by Apress on Sept. 26 (in the U.S.). My copy arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. Very much worth a look, IMHO. But what do

Re: New Python book

2005-10-05 Thread Jeremy Jones
Dick Moores wrote: (Sorry, my previous post should not have had Tutor in the subject header.) Magnus Lie Hetland's new book, _Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional_ was published by Apress on Sept. 26 (in the U.S.). My copy arrived in the mail a couple of days ago. Very much worth a

Re: New Python book

2005-10-05 Thread hrh1818
/book/compare/159059519X Dick Moores [EMAIL PROTECTED] Along the same line what do the experts think of the new Python book published by Wrox, titled Beginnig Python with Peter Norton as the lead author? I was disappointed in the introductory material presented in the first 1/3 of the book