As a new learner of programming I'd recommend Head First Programming "A learner's guide to programming, using the Python language" by O'Reilly. It is very basic.
Joe On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Kirk Z Bailey <kbai...@howlermonkey.net>wrote: > An instructor of mine is about to teach the FIRST EVER class in Python at > Saint Petersburg College; knowing I am a snakecharmer, he asked me for > referrals to online resources. > > Oh my. > > So I sent back this: > " > Ah, python., my fav obsession. First, the language website itself: > http://www.python.org/ > Natch, they offer a tutorial: > http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ > But this one is better for rank beginniners: > http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers > And there's another one here: > http://www.sthurlow.com/python/ > And a nice writeup on wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 > You may care to go teleport to planet python: > http://planet.python.org/ > And you can swim into it at diveintopython: > http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html > " > > Now here is a chance to help influence this getting off on the right foot. > I can use reccomendations for texts for use in an introduction to Python > class, and I will condense it down and provide them to the good doctor. > > -- > end > > Very Truly yours, > - Kirk Bailey, > Largo Florida > > kniht +-----+ > | BOX | +-----+ think > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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