I just finished Michael Dawson's Python Programming for the absolute beginner. I thought it was pretty good, with only a few minor nit picks. My programming background was limited to MATLAB and some Visual Basic scripting for excel, access etc making me the target audience. I liked the examples, and by the end has you put together a simple asteroid-style game (with livewires and pygame). If my C class back in undergrad had promised I'd be making some shooting games in the end perhaps I'd have kept with it and gone into computer science or something.
I also encountered a previous posters problem with the pizza not falling down. If you use the latest version of livewires the Sprite class does not accept velocity arguments and you have to invoke a separate Mover class to make it move. Considering I had no experience with python before this book, that I was able to open the games module and determine what changed says a lot about what can be learned from a 'beginners' book. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
