On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Ken G. <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/ 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> > <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 > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi
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